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Selected Verse: Psalms 142:4 - King James

Verse         Translation Text
Ps 142:4 King James 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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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Utter desolation is meant.

right hand--the place of a protector (Psa 110:5).

cared for--literally, "sought after," to do good.
 
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