10 Bible Verses about Disappointments
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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 do yet fail [in looking] for our vain 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 clean cut off.
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 Yahweh, and said, "Please, Yahweh, 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, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live."
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One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn't know the things which have happened there in these days?"
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Ruth 1:20She said to them, "Don't call me Naomi. Call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.