10 Bible Verses about Disappointments

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, but behold, trouble!

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

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

While we are, our eyes fail, for our help is vain; in our watching we have watched for a nation; it does not save.

And He said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried and our hope is lost; we are cut off by ourselves.

When I looked for good, then evil came; and when I waited for light, then darkness came.

Why has my pain been without end, and why is my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You surely are to me like a deceitful brook, waters that cannot be trusted.

In all this Job did not sin, nor charge God foolishly.

But it was a great calamity in Jonah's sight, and it kindled anger in him. And he prayed to Jehovah and said, Please, O Jehovah, was this not my saying when I was still in my land? On account of this I fled before to Tarshish. For I knew that You are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and One who repents over calamity. And now, O Jehovah, I beseech You, take my life from me. For better is my death than my life.