Parallel Verses
King James 2000
I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would acknowledge me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
New American Standard Bible
For there is
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
no one stands up for me;
there is no refuge for me;
no one cares about me.
International Standard Version
I look to my right and observe no one is concerned about me. There is nowhere I can go for refuge, and no one cares for me.
A Conservative Version
Look on [my] right hand, and see, for there is no man who knows me. Refuge has failed me. No man cares for my soul.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
Look to the right [the point of attack] and see;
For there is no one who has regard for me [to act in my favor].
Escape has failed me and I have nowhere to run;
No one cares about my life.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
Look on the right hand and see; there is no man that knoweth me: refuge hath failed me; no man careth for my soul.
Julia Smith Translation
Looking upon the right hand, and seeing, and none caring for me: flight perished from me; none sought for my soul
Lexham Expanded Bible
look to [my] right and see. There is no one looking out for me; there is no escape for me; no one cares for my soul.
Modern King James verseion
I looked on my right hand, and I watched, but no one recognized me; escape was lost to me; no man cared for my soul.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I look upon my righthand, and see there is no man that will know me. I have no place to flee unto, no man careth for my soul.
NET Bible
Look to the right and see! No one cares about me. I have nowhere to run; no one is concerned about my life.
New Heart English Bible
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.
The Emphasized Bible
Look to the right hand and see, that there is none that, for me, hath regard, - Escape is lost to me, There is no one to care for my life.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Looking on the right hand -- and seeing, And I have none recognizing; Perished hath refuge from me, There is none inquiring for my soul.
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 142:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Cry Of Distress
3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then you knew my path. In the way in which I walked have they secretly laid a snare for me. 4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would acknowledge me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. 5 I cried unto you, O LORD: I said, you are my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 31:11
I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a horror to my acquaintance: they that did see me outside fled from me.
Psalm 69:20
Reproach has 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.
Psalm 88:8
You have put away my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Psalm 88:18
Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.
1 Samuel 23:11-13
Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech you, tell your servant. And the LORD said, He will come down.
1 Samuel 23:19-20
Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself with us in strongholds in the forest, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?
1 Samuel 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 border of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.
Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as one dying.
Job 19:13-19
He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
Jeremiah 25:35
And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the leaders of the flock to escape.
Jeremiah 30:17
For I will restore health unto you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD; because they called you an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeks after.
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.
2 Timothy 4:16
At my first defense no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.