10 Bible Verses about Disappointments

We looked for peace, and we fair not the better; we waited for the time of health, and lo, here is nothing but trouble.

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but an indiscreet son is a heaviness unto his mother.

Hope deferred grieveth the heart; but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

{Pe} Wherefore yet our eyes fail us, while we look for vain help: seeing we be ever waiting upon a people that can do us no good.

Moreover, he said unto me, "Thou son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, 'Our bones are dried up, our hope is gone, we are clean cut off.'

Yet nevertheless, whereas I looked for good, evil happened unto me; and whereas I waited for light, there came darkness.

Shall my heaviness endure forever? Are my plagues then so great, that they may never be healed? Wilt thou be as a water that faileth, and cannot continue?"

In all these things did Job not offend, nor murmured foolishly against God.

Therefore Jonah was sore discontent and angry. And he prayed unto the LORD and said, "O LORD, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country? And therefore I hasted rather to flee to Tarshish: for I knew well enough that thou wast a merciful god, full of compassion long before thou be angry, and of great mercy and repentest when thou art come to take punishment. Now therefore take my life from me, for I had better die than live."