Psalms 142:4
Look on the right hand and see; there is no man that knoweth me: refuge hath failed me; no man careth for my soul.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
5I cried unto thee, Jehovah; I said, Thou art my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:19And the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself with us in strongholds in the wood, on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the waste?
Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and [all] refuge shall vanish from them, and their hope [shall be] the breathing out of life.
Psalms 1:6For Jehovah knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
Psalms 69:20Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am overwhelmed: and I looked for sympathy, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
Psalms 88:18Lover and associate hast thou put far from me: my familiar friends are 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 →