Psalms 142:4
(142-5) Look on my right hand, and see, for there is no man that knoweth me; I have no way to flee; no man careth for my soul.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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1 Samuel 23:19Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying: 'Doth not David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?
Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee, and their hope shall be the drooping of the soul.
Psalms 1:6For the LORD regardeth the way of the righteous; but the way of the wicked shall perish.
Psalms 69:20(69-21) Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am sore sick; and I looked for some to show compassion, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
Psalms 88:18(88-19) Friend and companion hast Thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
Psalms 141:9Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the gins 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 →