15 Bible Verses about Troubling Individuals

They made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.

Esau realized that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me, making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”

“Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” Samuel asked Saul.

“I’m in serious trouble,” replied Saul. “The Philistines are fighting against me and God has turned away from me. He doesn’t answer me anymore, either through the prophets or in dreams. So I’ve called on you to tell me what I should do.”

How long will you torment me
and crush me with words?

When Joseph saw that his father had placed his right hand on Ephraim’s head, he thought it was a mistake and took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s.

Because she nagged him day after day and pleaded with him until she wore him out,

Her rival would taunt her severely just to provoke her, because the Lord had kept Hannah from conceiving.

While He was still speaking, people came from the synagogue leader’s house and said, “Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher anymore?”

While He was still speaking, someone came from the synagogue leader’s house, saying, “Your daughter is dead. Don’t bother the Teacher anymore.”

Then Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a noble thing for Me.

the others proclaim Christ out of rivalry, not sincerely, seeking to cause me anxiety in my imprisonment.

And He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the detestable things they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and repeatedly provoke Me to anger, even putting the branch to their nose?

yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice, so she doesn’t wear me out by her persistent coming.’”

“If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds something improper about her, he may write her a divorce certificate, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.