Discovery BoxPsalms 142:3-5 
Context142:3 Even when my strength leaves me, 1
you watch my footsteps. 2
In the path where I walk
they have hidden a trap for me.
142:4 Look to the right and see!
No one cares about me. 3
I have nowhere to run; 4
no one is concerned about my life. 5
142:5 I cry out to you, O Lord;
I say, “You are my shelter,
my security 6 in the land of the living.”
1 tn Heb “my spirit grows faint.”
2 tn Heb “you know my path.”
3 tn Heb “there is no one who recognizes me.”
4 tn Heb “ a place of refuge perishes from me.”
5 tn Heb “there is no one who seeks for the sake of my life.”
6 tn Heb “my portion.” The psalmist compares the
