Bible Verses About Murmuring

who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?

Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.

For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.

I am not at ease or quiet; I have no rest, for trouble has come.”

Are the consolations of God not enough for you, even words spoken gently to you?

Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,

as you turn your spirit against God and pour such words from your mouth?

Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.

Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?

For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”

Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.

But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.

You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.

You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.

You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.

You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.

You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,

at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.

All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.

Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.

But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.

If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?