Psalm 141:4-6

Revised Standard Version

⁴Incline not my heart to any evil,
to busy myself with wicked deeds
in company with men who work iniquity;
and let me not eat of their dainties!

⁵Let a good man strike or rebuke me in kindness,
    but let the oil of the wicked never anoint my head;^[a]
    for my prayer is continually^[b] against their wicked deeds.
⁶When they are given over to those who shall condemn them,
    then they shall learn that the word of the Lord is true.

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Footnotes

Psalm 141:5 Gk: Heb obscure
Psalm 141:5 Cn: Heb for continually and my prayer

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