10 Bible Verses about Disappointments

We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror.

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

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.

Then he said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are indeed cut off.'

But when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came.

Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. And he prayed to the LORD and said, "O LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster. Therefore now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live."