Teks -- Psalms 142:4 (NET)

142:4 Look to the right and see! No one cares about me. I have nowhere to run; no one is concerned about my life.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Psa 142:4 - Right

hand - The place where the patron or assistant used to stand.

JFB: Psa 142:4

Utter desolation is meant.

JFB: Psa 142:4 - right hand

The place of a protector (Psa 110:5).

JFB: Psa 142:4 - cared for

Literally, "sought after," to do good.

Clarke: Psa 142:4 - There was no man, that would know me

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?

Calvin: Psa 142:4 - On looking to the right hand

4.On looking to the right hand, ²⁴⁷ etc. , He shows that there was good cause for the dreadful sufferings he experienced, since no human aid or comfort was to be expected, and destruction seemed inevitable. When he speaks of having looked and yet not perceived a friend amongst men, he does not mean that he had turned his thoughts to earthly helps in forgetfulness of God, but that he had made such inquiry as was warrantable after one on the earth who might assist him. Had any person of the kind presented himself, he would no doubt have recognized him as an instrument in the hand of God’s mercy, but it was God’s purpose that he should be abandoned of all assistance from man, and that his deliverance from destruction should thus appear more extraordinary. In the expression, none seeking after my soul, the verb to seek after is used in a good sense, for being solicitous about any man’s welfare or safety.

TSK: Psa 142:4 - I looked // but there was // refuge // failed me, no man cared for my soul

I looked : etc. or, Look on the right hand and see

but there was : Psa 31:11, Psa 69:20, Psa 88:8, Psa 88:18; Job 19:13-19; Mat 26:56; 2Ti 4:16

refuge : 1Sa 23:11-13, 1Sa 23:19, 1Sa 23:20, 1Sa 27:1

failed me, no man cared for my soul : Heb. perished from me; no man sought after my soul

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Psa 142:4 - Right hand // No man // Know me // For my soul

Right hand the place where the patron or assistant used to stand. See Psa 16:8 109:31 121:5 .

No man to wit, in Saul’ s court or camp; none of my former acquaintance, and friends. and relations.

Know me own me, or show any respect or kindness to me.

For my soul or, for my life , to wit, to preserve it; but they all conspired to take it away; which is here implied.

Haydock: Psa 142:4 - Troubled

Troubled. David knew not what course to take, 1 Kings xv. 25, 31. Our Saviour was in the greatest agony. (Calmet)

Gill: 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

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 Psa 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.