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La Biblia Reina-Valera
Salmos 142:4
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Mira a la derecha, y ve, porque no hay quien me tome en cuenta; no hay refugio para mí; no hay quien cuide de mi alma.
Mir� a mi mano derecha, y observ�; mas no hab�a quien me conociese; no tuve refugio, nadie se preocup� por mi alma.
Miraba a la mano derecha, y observaba; mas no hab�a qui�n me conociese; no tuve refugio, no hab�a qui�n volviese por mi vida.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I looked: etc. or, Look on the right hand and see
but there was: Psalms 31:11, Psalms 69:20, Psalms 88:8, Psalms 88:18, Job 19:13-19, Matthew 26:56, 2 Timothy 4:16
refuge: 1 Samuel 23:11-13, 1 Samuel 23:19, 1 Samuel 23:20, 1 Samuel 27:1
failed me, no man cared for my soul: Heb. perished from me; no man sought after my soul
Reciprocal: Genesis 32:7 - greatly Numbers 35:6 - six cities for refuge 2 Samuel 22:3 - my refuge Psalms 9:9 - The Lord Psalms 13:2 - take Psalms 22:11 - none to help Psalms 61:4 - trust Psalms 71:7 - thou art Psalms 91:9 - Because Psalms 94:17 - Unless Psalms 107:12 - and there Psalms 116:4 - O Lord Psalms 119:86 - help Ecclesiastes 4:1 - they had Isaiah 51:18 - none Jeremiah 30:13 - none Ezekiel 34:6 - and none Micah 7:7 - I will look Luke 8:24 - Master Luke 10:31 - he passed Luke 15:16 - no Luke 23:49 - acquaintance John 5:7 - I have 1 Peter 5:7 - for
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I looked on [my] right hand, and beheld,.... On the left, so Kimchi supplies it, and after him Piscator; he looked about him every way to the right and left, to see if he could get any help, or find out any way of deliverance. To this sense the Targum, Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions render the words; and so Kimchi and Aben Ezra understand them: but some render them in the imperative, "look on the right hand, and behold" n; and consider them; either as spoken to his own soul, to stir up himself to look around him for help and relief; or as an address to God, to look and behold, as in
Psalms 80:14; and R. Obadiah reads them, "look, O right hand"; O right hand of God, that does valiantly: but looking cannot properly be ascribed to the right hand; and besides it is not the Lord the psalmist is speaking to, or looking after, but men, as follows;
but [there was] no man that would know me; take notice of him, and acknowledge and own him, or show him any favour, or even own that they had any knowledge of him; which is often the case when men are in affliction and distress, their former friends, acquaintance, yea, relations, keep at a distance from them; so it was with Job, the Messiah, and others; see Job 19:13;
refuge failed me; as he could get no help from men, so there was no way open for his escape, or by which he could flee and get out of the hands and reach of his enemies; in these circumstances he was when in the cave;
no man cared for my soul; or "life" o; to save it, protect and defend it, that is, very few; otherwise there were some that were concerned for him, as the men that were with him, and Jonathan, Saul's son; but none of Saul's courtiers, they were not solicitous for his welfare, but on the contrary sought his life, to take it away. This is an emblem of a soul under first awakenings and convictions, inquiring the way of salvation, and where to find help, but at a lois for it in the creature.
n הביט ימין וראה "respice dexteram et vide", Montanus; "vel ad dexteram", Musculus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Michaelis. o נפשי "vitam meam", Junius & Tremellius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I looked on my right hand, and beheld - Margin, “Look on the right hand and see The words translated “looked” and “beheld” are in the imperative mood in the Hebrew. They are not, however, improperly rendered as to the sense. They refer to David’s state of mind at the time, and give vividness to the description. The psalmist seems to be in the presence of others. He calls upon them to look around; to see how he was encompassed with danger. Look, says he, in every direction; see who there is on whom I may rely; what there is to which I may trust as a refuge. I can find none; I see none; there is none. The “right hand” is referred to here as the direction where he might look for a protector: Psalms 109:6, Psalms 109:31.
But there was no man that would know me - No man to be seen who would recognize me as his friend; who would stand up for me; on whom I could rely.
Refuge failed me - Margin, as in Hebrew, “perished from me.” If there had been any hope of refuge, it has failed altogether. There is none now.
No man cared for my soul - Margin, “No man sought after my soul.” Hebrew, after my “life.” That is, No one sought to save my life; no one regarded it as of sufficient importance to attempt to preserve me.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 142:4. There was no man, that would know me — This has been applied to the time in which our Lord was deserted by his disciples. As to the case of David in the cave of En-gedi, he had no refuge: for what were the handful of men that were with him to Saul and his army?
