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 makes a glad father: but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

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

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

Then he said unto 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 on our part.

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

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you be altogether unto me as a deceitful brook, and as waters that fail?

In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God with wrong.

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