Complaining
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And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
for that he heareth your murmurings against the Lord: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?
wherefore do ye tempt the Lord? And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me,
And the men which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,
For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the Lord: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?
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 ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the Lord God of Israel.
And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.
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.
If I did despise the cause of my manservant,
Or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
I remembered God, and was troubled:
I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed.
Selah.
But murmured in their tents,
And hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord.
They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding,
And they that murmured shall learn doctrine.
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?
And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.
The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.
When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?
And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him: for some said, He is a good man: others said, Nay; but he deceiveth the people.
Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
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.