Murmuring

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Numbers 14:1-45 OT

  All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of…

• Numbers 20:2-5 OT

  There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron. The people quarreled with Moses, and spoke, saying, “We wish that we had died when our brothers died before Yahweh! Why have…

• Numbers 21:5 OT

  The people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, there is no water, and our soul loathes this disgusting food!”

• Numbers 21:6 OT

  Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.

• Deuteronomy 1:27 OT

  You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.

• Deuteronomy 1:28 OT

  Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’ ”

• Numbers 16:8-11 OT

  Moses said to Korah, “Hear now, you sons of Levi! Is it a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of Yahweh’s tabernacle, and to stand…

• Job 3:1-26 OT

  After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. Job answered: “Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’ Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it,…

• Job 6:1-30 OT

  Then Job answered, “Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash. For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My…

• Job 7:1-21 OT

  “Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand? As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages, so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are…

• Job 9:1-35 OT

  Then Job answered, “Truly I know that it is so, but how can man be just with God? If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand. God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself…

• Job 10:1-22 OT

  “My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me. Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you…

• Job 13:1-28 OT

  “Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it. What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you. “Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God. But you are forgers of lies. You are all…

• Job 19:1-29 OT

  Then Job answered, “How long will you torment me, and crush me with words? You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me. If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself. If indeed you will magnify…

• Job 23:1-17 OT

  Then Job answered, “Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning. Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat! I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth…

• Job 30:1-31 OT

  “But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs. Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished? They are gaunt from lack and…

• 2 Samuel 6:8 OT

  David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken out against Uzzah; and he called that place Perez Uzzah, to this day.

• Psalms 116:10 OT

  I believed, therefore I said, “I was greatly afflicted.”

• Psalms 116:11 OT

  I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”

• Psalms 73:3 OT

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

• 1 Kings 19:4 OT

  But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my…

• 1 Kings 19:10 OT

  He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to…

• Ecclesiastes 2:17 OT

  So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

• Ecclesiastes 2:18 OT

  I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.