15 Bible Verses about Troubling Individuals

and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.

So when Esau saw that the Canaanite women did not please Isaac his father,

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me by making me stink to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. My numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household."

Then Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" Saul answered, "I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams. Therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do."

"How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words?

When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he took his father's hand to move it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.

And when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death.

And her rival used to provoke her grievously to irritate her, because the LORD had closed her womb.

While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler's house some who said, "Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?"

While he was still speaking, someone from the ruler's house came and said, "Your daughter is dead; do not trouble the Teacher any more."

But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.

The former proclaim Christ out of rivalry, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment.

Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations that they commit here, that they should fill the land with violence and provoke me still further to anger? Behold, they put the branch to their nose.

yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.'"

"When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house,