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Psa 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

I looked, etc.		or, Look on the right hand and see
but there was		Psa 31:11; Psa 69:20; Psa 88:8,18; Job 19:13-19; Mat 26:56; 2Ti 4:16
refuge		1Sa 23:11-13,19,20; 1Sa 27:1
failed me; no man cared for my soul		Heb. perished from me; no man sought after my soul.

Correlating Passages

but there was

	Psa 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.
	Psa 69:20	Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] none; and for comforters, but I found none.
	Psa 88:8	Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: [I am] shut up, and I cannot come forth.
	Psa 88:18	Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, [and] mine acquaintance into darkness.
	Job 19:13	He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
	Job 19:14	My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
	Job 19:15	They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
	Job 19:16	I called my servant, and he gave [me] no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.
	Job 19:17	My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's [sake] of mine own body.
	Job 19:18	Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.
	Job 19:19	All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
	Mat 26:56	But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
	2Ti 4:16	At my first answer no man stood with me, but all [men] forsook me: [I pray God] that it may not be laid to their charge.

refuge

	1Sa 23:11	Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD said, He will come down.
	1Sa 23:12	Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul? And the LORD said, They will deliver [thee] up.
	1Sa 23:13	Then David and his men, [which were] about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.
	1Sa 23:19	Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which [is] on the south of Jeshimon?
	1Sa 23:20	Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part [shall be] to deliver him into the king's hand.
	1Sa 27:1	And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: [there is] nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.

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Scott, Thomas. "Psalms 142:4," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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