10 Bible Verses about Disappointments

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

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when longing is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.

Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that 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 completely cut off.'

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

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?"

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

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. He prayed to the LORD, and said, "Please, LORD, wasn't this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm. Therefore now, LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."