10 Bible Verses about Disappointments

A waiting For prosperity, but no welfare, - For a time of healing, but lo! terror.

The Proverbs of Solomon: A wise son, maketh a glad father, but, a foolish son, is the grief of his mother.

Hope deferred, sickeneth the heart, - but, a tree of life, is desire fulfilled.

Silly shall our eyes fail, for our help that is vain: In our watchtower, have we watched - for a nation that will not save.

Then said he unto me, Son of man. These bones, are all the house of Israel, - Lo! they are saying. Dried are our bones, and lost is our hope We are quite cut off!

Surely, for good, I looked, but there came in evil, And I waited for light, but there came in darkness;

Wherefore hath my pain become perpetual? And my wound, incurable? Refuseth to be healed? Wilt thou, indeed be, to me As a brook that disappointeth, Waters that cannot be trusted?

In all this, Job sinned not, nor imputed folly unto God.

And it was vexing unto Jonah, with a great vexation, - and it angered him. So he prayed unto Yahweh, and said - Ah now! Yahweh! Was not, this, my word, while I was yet upon mine own soil? For this cause, did I hasten to flee unto Tarshish, - because I knew that, thou, art a GOD of favour and compassion, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and art grieved over calamity. Now, therefore, O Yahweh, take, I pray thee, my life from me, - for it were better for me, to die, than, to live.