100 Bible Verses About Frustration

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;

For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.

And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the Lord; for that he heareth your murmurings against the Lord: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?

And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.

And Moses said unto the Lord, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?

And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?

They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.

O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.

And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the Lord?

But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.

Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Intreat the Lord, that he may take away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the Lord.

By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears: and I told this unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.

Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king’s hand.

For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.

He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be made fat.

And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

If the priest’s daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.

And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out Gaal and his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem.

There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.

And say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,

The city of confusion is broken down: every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,

And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.

Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.

Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.

Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.

Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight with them.

But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the Lord.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.

The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.

In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.

Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.

And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.

And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?

Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with ashes upon his face.

And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had spoken unto Moses.

Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the Lord.

But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.

And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;

Ye have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

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

In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.

And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.

I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.

He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.

Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth–shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon’s servant, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king.

Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.

The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death,

Yet they say, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?

The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the Lord to anger.

The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.

Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: