Bible Verses About Murmuring: Against God

Moshe returned to ADONAI and said, "ADONAI, why have you treated this people so terribly? What has been the value of sending me?

For ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has dealt terribly with this people! And you haven't rescued your people at all!"

Moshe added, "What I have said will happen when ADONAI gives you meat to eat this evening and your fill of bread tomorrow morning. ADONAI has listened to your complaints and grumblings against him - what are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against ADONAI."

"I have heard the grumblings of the people of Isra'el. Say to them: 'At dusk you will be eating meat, and in the morning you will have your fill of bread. Then you will realize that I am ADONAI your God.'"

ADONAI said to Moshe and Aharon,

"How long am I to put up with this evil community who keep grumbling about me? I have heard the complaints of the people of Isra'el, which they continue to raise against me.

Tell them this: 'As surely as I live, ADONAI swears, as surely as you have spoken in my ears, I will do this to you:

your carcasses will fall in this desert! Every single one of you who were included in the census over the age of twenty, you who have complained against me,

will certainly not enter the land about which I raised my hand to swear that I would have you live in it - except for Kalev the son of Y'funeh and Y'hoshua the son of Nun.

But your little ones, who you said would be taken as booty - them I will bring in. They will know the land you have rejected.

But you, your carcasses will fall in this desert;

and your children will wander about in the desert for forty years bearing the consequences of your prostitutions until the desert eats up your carcasses.

It will be a year for every day you spent reconnoitering the land that you will bear the consequences of your offenses - forty days, forty years. Then you will know what it means to oppose me!

I, ADONAI, have spoken.' I will certainly do this to this whole evil community who have assembled together against me - they will be destroyed in this desert and die there."

The men whom Moshe had sent to reconnoiter the land and who, when they returned, made the entire community complain against him by giving an unfavorable report about the land -

those men who gave the unfavorable report about the land died by the plague in the presence of ADONAI.

ADONAI said to Moshe, "Return Aharon's staff to its place in front of the testimony. It is to be kept there as a sign to the rebels, so that they will stop grumbling against me and thus not die."

Moshe did this; he did as ADONAI had ordered him.

Are the comfortings of God not enough for you, or a word that deals gently with you?

Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash angrily,

so that you turn your spirit against God and let such words escape your mouth?

"But in this, you are wrong; I will answer you: God is greater than any mortal.

Why do you strive against him? He will not defend his words

For now to his sin he adds rebellion; he [mockingly] claps his hands among us and keeps adding to his words against God."

By David: Don't be upset by evildoers or envious of those who do wrong,