Psalms Chapter 142 verse 4 Holy Bible

ASV Psalms 142:4

Look on `my' right hand, and see; For there is no man that knoweth me: Refuge hath failed me; No man careth for my soul.
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BBE Psalms 142:4

Looking to my right side, I saw no man who was my friend: I had no safe place; no one had any care for my soul.
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DARBY 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.
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KJV Psalms 142:4

I 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.
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WEB Psalms 142:4

Look on my right, and see; For there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.
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YLT Psalms 142:4

Looking on the right hand -- and seeing, And I have none recognizing; Perished hath refuge from me, There is none inquiring for my soul.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me. I looked about, i.e., for human aid, but there was no one who would so much as know me. I was utterly deserted in my trouble. Refuge failed me. I had nowhere to flee unto - no safe and sure abiding-place. The "cave of Adullam" was but a miserable spot to hide in. No man cared for my soul; or, "looked after my soul" (comp. Jeremiah 30:17).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) I looked.--The Authorised Version follows the ancient versions in turning the Hebrew imperatives into historic tenses. But they are easily intelligible if taken rhetorically, and indeed the psalm loses in liveliness by missing them:"On the path by which I must walk they have laid a trap for me;Look to the right and see,Not a friend is in sight.Failed has refuge from me,There is none who careth for my soul."To the "right," because according to the regular Hebrew metaphor it was on the "right hand" that the protector would stand. (See Note Psalm 16:8, &c; and comp. Psalm 109:6; Psalm 109:31; Psalm 110:5; Psalm 121:5.) . . .