Psalms 142:4

“I looked on [my] right hand, and beheld, etc.] 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”f1905; 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 (<198014>Psalm 80:14); and R. Obadiah reads them, “look, O right hand”; O right…”

“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:…”

“Right - hand - The place where the patron or assistant used to stand. Psalms 142:5”

“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; Ti2 4:16 refuge: Sa1 23:11-13, Sa1 23:19, Sa1 23:20, Sa1 27:1 failed me, no man cared for my soul: Heb. perished from me; no man sought after my soul Psalms 142:5”