Bible Verses About Murmuring

when at last they find the grave, they are so happy they shout for joy.

[Why give light] to a man who wanders blindly, whom God shuts in on every side?

"My sighing serves in place of my food, and my groans pour out in a torrent;

for the thing I feared has overwhelmed me, what I dreaded has happened to me.

I have no peace, no quiet, no rest; and anguish keeps coming."

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,

Yet now you have thrust us aside and disgraced us; you don't march out with our armies.

You make us retreat from the adversary, and those who hate us plunder us at will.

You have handed us over like sheep to be eaten and scattered us among the nations.

You sell your people for a pittance, you don't even profit on the sale.

You make us an object for our neighbors to mock, one of scorn and derision to those around us.

You make us a byword among the nations; the peoples jeer at us, shaking their heads.

All day long my disgrace is on my mind, and shame has covered my face

at the sound of those who revile and insult, at the sight of the enemy bent on revenge.

Though all this came on us, we did not forget you; we have not been false to your covenant;

Our hearts have not turned back, and our steps did not turn away from your path,

though you pressed us into a lair of jackals and covered us with death-dark gloom.

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

wouldn't God have discovered this, since he knows the secrets of the heart?