Bible Verses About Murmuring

Don't ask why the old days were better than now, because that is a foolish question.

When his descendants see the work of my hands among them, they will consecrate my name. Yes, they will consecrate the Holy one of Ya'akov and stand in awe of the God of Isra'el.

Those whose spirits stray will come to understand, and those who complain will learn their lesson.

Woe to me, mother, that you gave me birth, a man who is the object of strife and controversy throughout the land! I neither lend nor borrow, yet all of them curse me.

A curse on the day I was born! The day my mother gave birth to me - let it not be blessed!

A curse on the man who brought the news to my father, "A son has been born to you!" - thus making him very happy.

Let that man be like the cities ADONAI overthrew without mercy! Let him hear cries of alarm in the morning and the sound of battle at noon,

because God did not put me to death in the womb and let my mother become my grave, her womb forever filled with me.

Why did I have to emerge from the womb, just to see toil and sorrow, and end my days in shame?

Why should anyone alive complain, even a strong man, about the punishment for his sins?

But this was very displeasing to Yonah, and he became angry.

He prayed to ADONAI, "Now, ADONAI, didn't I say this would happen, when I was still in my own country? That's why I tried to get away to Tarshish ahead of time! I knew you were a God who is merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in grace, and that you relent from inflicting punishment.

Therefore, ADONAI, please, just take my life away from me; it's better for me to be dead than alive!"

ADONAI asked, "Is it right for you to be so angry?"

Yonah left the city and found a place east of the city, where he made himself a shelter and sat down under it, in its shade, to see what would happen to the city.

ADONAI, God, prepared a castor-bean plant and made it grow up over Yonah to shade his head and relieve his discomfort. So Yonah was delighted with the castor-bean plant.

But at dawn the next day God prepared a worm, which attacked the castor-bean plant, so that it dried up.

Then, when the sun rose, God prepared a scorching east wind; and the sun beat down on Yonah's head so hard that he grew faint and begged that he could die, saying, "I would be better off dead than alive."

God asked Yonah, "Is it right for you to be so angry about the castor-bean plant?" He answered, "Yes, it's right for me to be so angry that I could die!"

ADONAI said, "You're concerned over the castor-bean plant, which cost you no effort; you didn't make it grow; it came up in a night and perished in a night.

So shouldn't I be concerned about the great city of Ninveh, in which there are more than 120,000 people who don't know their right hand from their left - not to mention all the animals?"

By saying, 'There is no point in serving God. What good is it to obey his orders or to walk about as mourners before ADONAI-Tzva'ot?

For the way you judge others is how you will be judged -- the measure with which you measure out will be used to measure to you.

On receiving their wages, they began grumbling to the farmer,

But some there angrily said to themselves, "Why this waste of perfume?