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Numbers 11:4-5
The riffraff among them had a strong craving for other food. The Israelites wept again and said,“ Who will feed us meat?We remember the free fish we ate in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
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Lamentations 4:9
Those slain by the sword are better off than those slain by hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.
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Exodus 17:3
But the people thirsted there for water and grumbled against Moses. They said,“ Why did you ever bring us up from Egypt to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”
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Numbers 20:3-5
The people quarreled with Moses and said,“ If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the LORD.Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?Why have you led us up from Egypt to bring us to this evil place? It’s not a place of grain, figs, vines, and pomegranates, and there is no water to drink!”
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Deuteronomy 28:67
In the morning you will say,‘ If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say,‘ If only it were morning!’— because of the dread you will have in your heart and because of what you will see.
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Numbers 14:2
All the Israelites complained about Moses and Aaron, and the whole community told them,“ If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!
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Joshua 7:7
“ Oh, Lord GOD,” Joshua said,“ why did you ever bring these people across the Jordan to hand us over to the Amorites for our destruction? If only we had been content to remain on the other side of the Jordan!
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1 Corinthians 4 8
You are already full! You are already rich! You have begun to reign as kings without us— and I wish you did reign, so that we could also reign with you!
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Acts 26:29
“ I wish before God,” replied Paul,“ that whether easily or with difficulty, not only you but all who listen to me today might become as I am— except for these chains.”
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Deuteronomy 8:3
He humbled you by letting you go hungry; then he gave you manna to eat, which you and your ancestors had not known, so that you might learn that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.
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Jonah 4:8-9
As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind. The sun beat down on Jonah’s head so much that he almost fainted, and he wanted to die. He said,“ It’s better for me to die than to live.”Then God asked Jonah,“ Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?”“ Yes, it’s right!” he replied.“ I’m angry enough to die!”
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2 Samuel 18 33
The king was deeply moved and went up to the chamber above the city gate and wept. As he walked, he cried,“ My son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you, Absalom, my son, my son!”
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Exodus 2:23
After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labor, they cried out, and their cry for help because of the difficult labor ascended to God.
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Exodus 5:21
“ May the LORD take note of you and judge,” they said to them,“ because you have made us reek to Pharaoh and his officials— putting a sword in their hand to kill us!”
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Numbers 11:15
If you are going to treat me like this, please kill me right now if I have found favor with you, and don’t let me see my misery anymore.”
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Jeremiah 20:14-18
May the day I was born be cursed. May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.May the man be cursed who brought the news to my father, saying,“ A male child is born to you,” bringing him great joy.Let that man be like the cities the LORD demolished without compassion. Let him hear an outcry in the morning and a war cry at noontimebecause he didn’t kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, her womb eternally pregnant.Why did I come out of the womb to see only struggle and sorrow, to end my life in shame?
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Numbers 16:13
Is it not enough that you brought us up from a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Do you also have to appoint yourself as ruler over us?
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Job 3:20
Why is light given to one burdened with grief, and life to those whose existence is bitter,
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Job 3:1
After this, Job began to speak and cursed the day he was born.
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Job 3:10
For that night did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb, and hide sorrow from my eyes.
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2 Corinthians 11 1
I wish you would put up with a little foolishness from me. Yes, do put up with me!
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Jeremiah 2:6
They stopped asking,“ Where is the LORD who brought us from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and ravines, through a land of drought and darkness, a land no one traveled through and where no one lived?”
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Numbers 16:41
The next day the entire Israelite community complained about Moses and Aaron, saying,“ You have killed the LORD’s people!”