20 Bible Verses about Discontent

And Moses will remove Israel from the sea of sedge, and they will come forth to the desert of Shur; and they will go three days into the desert, and they found not water. And they will come to Marah, and they will not be able to drink the waters of Marah, for they are bitter: for this he called the name bitterness. And the people will murmur against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

And all the assembly of the sons of Israel will murmur against Moses and against Aaron in the desert

And the morning, and ye saw the glory of Jehovah, in his hearing your murmurings against Jehovah and what are we that ye will murmur against us? And Moses will say, In Jehovah giving you in the evening flesh to eat, and bread in the morning to satiety; in Jehovah hearing your murmurings which ye murmured against him: and what are we? not against us your murmurings but against Jehovah. And Moses will say to Aaron, Say to all the assembly of the sons of Israel, Come near before Jehovah: for he heard your murmurings.read more.
And it shall be as Aaron spake to all the assembly of the sons of Israel, and they will turn to the desert, and behold, the glory of Jehovah was seen in the cloud. And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying, I heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel; speak to them, saying, Between the two evenings ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread: and ye knew that I am Jehovah your God.

And the people will thirst there for water; and the people will murmur against Moses, and will say, For what this did ye bring us up out of Egypt to kill us and our sons and our cattle with thirst?

And all the children of Israel will murmur against Moses, and against Aaron; and all the assembly will say to them, Would we died in the land of Egypt! or in this desert would that we died!

And Jehovah will speak to Moses and to Aaron, saying, How long for this evil assembly, that they are murmuring against me? the murmurings of the sons of Israel which they are murmuring against me, I heard. Say to them, I live, says Jehovah, if not as ye spake in mine ears, so will I do to you:read more.
In this desert shall your carcasses fall; and all of you being reviewed according to all your number, from the son of twenty years and above, who murmured against me.

And the men whom Moses sent to search out the land, and they will turn back and will murmur against him to all the assembly, to bring forth slander upon the land.

And all the assembly of the sons of Israel will murmur on the morrow against Moses, and against Aaron, saying, Ye killed the people of Jehovah.

And they will despise in the land of desire; they trusted not to his word: And they will murmur in their tents; they heard not to the voice of Jehovah. And he will lift up his hand against them: he will cause them to fall in the desert:

Hades and destruction shall not be satisfied; and the eyes of man shall not be satisfied.

To the leech two daughters: Give, give. Behold, three shall not satisfied; four shall not say, Wealth: Hades; and the closed womb; the earth not filled with water; and fire said not, Wealth.

All words becoming weary; man shall not be able to speak: the eye shall not be satisfied to see, and the ear shall not be filled from hearing.

There is one, and not a second; also a son and brother not to him: and no end to all his labor; also his eye shall not be satisfied with riches: and for whom do I labor and diminish my soul from good? Also this is vanity, and it is an evil labor.

He loving silver shall not be satisfied with silver; and whoever loved not the increase with the multitude. Also this is vanity.

And he being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leprous, he reclining at table, a woman came having an alabaster box of perfumed oil of persuasive, costly, spikenard;. and having broken the alabaster box, she poured upon his head. And there were some displeased in themselves, and saying, For what has been the loss of this perfumed oil? For this could have been sold for above three hundred drachmas, and have been given to the poor. And they raged against her.

And he said to them, See, and watch yourselves from covetousness: for not in the abounding to any one of his possessions is his life.

And in those days, the disciples multiplying, there was a murmuring of the Greeks against the Hebrews, because their widows were overlooked in the daily service.

Neither do ye murmur, as also some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

And also of these prophesied Enoch, the seventh from Adam, saying, Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, To do judgment to all, and to convince all their irreligious of all their works of irreligion which they have impiously acted, and of all the hard things which the sinful irreligious spake against him. These are murmurers, discontented, going according to their eager desires; and their mouth speaks exceeding bulky things, admiring faces on account of advantage.

The disposition exempt from avarice; being contented with present circumstances: for he has said, I will not send thee back, nor forsake thee.