Psalm 142:4 (WEB)
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.
Fathers and councils · 9
Augustine of Hippo
“For I would that they would seek it for good! for in another Psalm he blameth this in men, that there was none who would seek after his soul: “Refuge failed me: there was none that would seek after my soul.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxlii. 4.
Read the whole comment“For in another passage He finds fault with some persons, saying, “There is no man to care for My soul.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxlii. 4.
Read the whole comment“For in a certain passage he makes an accusation, and says, “I looked upon my right hand, and beheld; and there was no man who sought after my soul;” that is, there was no man to imitate Mine example.” — editor's note: Ps. cxlii. 4.
Read the whole comment“There of persecutors He saith, that there was not one to seek out His soul: but here, “Let them be confounded and fear that seek My soul.”…And where is that which thou hast heard from thy Lord, “Love ye your enemies, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that persecute you”?” — editor's note: Ps. cxlii. 4.
Read the whole comment““I considered upon the right hand, and saw” (ver. 4).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“In the Psalms the Lord Himself says by the prophet, “A place of refuge hath failed me, and there is none that seeketh after my life;” and again He says in another place in the Psalms, “Let them be confounded and ashamed who seek after my life.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxlii. 4.
Read the whole comment“But in another place he says, “Refuge hath failed me, and there is no one that seeketh after my soul.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxlii. 4, marg.
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Jerome
““The rocks” then “are a refuge for the conies” who when they are persecuted in one city flee into another and have no fear that the prophetic words “refuge failed me” will be fulfilled in their case.” — editor's note: Ps. cxlii. 4.
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John Cassian
“…except in the way along which they walk, in accordance with that saying of the blessed David: “In the way wherein I walked have they laid a snare for me;” that in this very way of virtue along which we are walking, when pressing on to “the prize of our high calling,” we may be elated by our successes, and so sink…” — editor's note: Ps. cxli. (cxlii.) 4.
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in The Institutes XI.6.