Psalms 142:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 142

⁴I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.

Psalms 142:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 30:17
For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
Psalms 31:11
I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
Psalms 88:18
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
Job 19:13-19
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. …
Matthew 26:56
But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-7)

The psalmist here tells us, for our instruction, 1. How he was disowned and deserted by his friends, Ps. 142:4. When he was in favour at court he seemed to have a great interest, but when he was made an out-law, and it was dangerous for any one to harbour him (witness Ahimelech’s fate), then no man would know him, but every body was shy of him. He looked on his right hand for an advocate (Ps. 109:…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. Utter desolation is meant. right hand--the place of a protector (Psa 110:5). cared for--literally, “sought after,” to do good.