10 Bible Verses about Disappointments

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

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

Then 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 for our parts.

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

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether to me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. And he prayed to the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before to Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest of the evil. Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.