Bible Verses About Discontent

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.

Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

Behold, O Lord; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;

But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

But when king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth.

Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.

For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.

Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,

He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.

Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?