10 Bible Verses about Disappointments

Hoping for peace, and no good; for a time of healing, and behold, terror.

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son will gladden a father: and a son of the foolish will grieve his mother.

Hope being forgotten afflicts the heart: and desire coming, a tree of life.

Continuing, yet our eyes will fail, for our help in vain: in our watching we watched for a nation it will not save us.

And he will say to me, Son of man, these bones all the house of Israel: behold them saying, Our bones were dried up, and our hope perished, and we were cut off to us.

For I hoped for good and evil will come: and I shall wait for light and darkness will come.

Wherefore was my pain everlasting and my blow incurable, refusing to be healed? Being, wilt thou be to me as falsehood, the waters were not faithful?

In all this Job sinned not, and gave not folly to God.

And it will be evil to Jonah, a great evil, and it will kindle to him. And he will pray to Jehovah and say, Ah, now, O Jehovah, was not this my word while I was upon my land? For this I anticipated to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that thou art merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and of much kindness, and lamenting for evil. And now, O Jehovah, take now my soul from me, for it is good for me to die rather than for me to live.