Quotes about Failure
Ephraim also failed to drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer; so the Canaanites continued to dwell among them in Gezer.
— Judges 1:29
Asher failed to drive out the inhabitants of Acco, Sidon, Ahlab, Achzib, Helbah, Aphik, and Rehob.
— Judges 1:31
Naphtali failed to drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath. So the Naphtalites also lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, but the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath served them as forced laborers.
— Judges 1:33
The Israelites failed to remember the LORD their God who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side.
— Judges 8:34
The Israelites asked, “Who among all the tribes of Israel did not come to the assembly before the LORD?” For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah would surely be put to death.
— Judges 21:5
So they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah?” And, in fact, no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.
— Judges 21:8
Jehoshaphat built ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they never set sail, because they were wrecked at Ezion-geber.
— 1 Kings 22:48
and he failed to inquire of the LORD. So the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse.
— 1 Chronicles 10:14
But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”
— Job 11:20
His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.
— Job 18:7
and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.
— Job 32:3
They failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.
— Psalm 78:10