Psalms 142:4
Look on [my] right hand, and see, for there is no man who knows me. Refuge has failed me. No man cares for my soul.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
5I cried to thee, O LORD. I said, Thou are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:19Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the forest, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?
Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee. And their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit.
Psalms 1:6For LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
Psalms 69:20Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.
Psalms 88:18Thou have put beloved and friend far from me, and my acquaintances into darkness.
Psalms 141:9Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 142:2-4
David's Complaints. 1 I cried unto the Lord with my voice; with my voice unto the Lord did I make my supplication. 2 I poured out my complaint before him; I showed before him my trouble. 3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me. Whether it was in the cave of Adullam, or that of Engedi, that David prayed this prayer, is not material; it is plain that he was in distress. It was a great disgrace to so great a soldier, so… Read the whole commentary →