Bible Verses About Murmuring: Against God

As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

¶ Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?

Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

¶ The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.

Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.

¶ Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?

But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.

Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?

Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

¶ Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.