10 Bible Verses about Disappointments

We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Hope put off is a weariness to the heart; but when what is desired comes, it is a tree of life.

Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.

Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the children of Israel: and see, they are saying, Our bones have become dry our hope is gone, we are cut off completely.

For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.

Why is my pain unending and my wound without hope of being made well? Sorrow is mine, for you are to me as a stream offering false hope and as waters which are not certain.

In all this Job did no sin, and did not say that God's acts were foolish.

But this seemed very wrong to Jonah, and he was angry. And he made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still in my country? This is why I took care to go in flight to Tarshish: for I was certain that you were a loving God, full of pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, and ready to be turned from your purpose of evil. So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.