³ Lord, ·help me control my tongue [^Lset a guard on my mouth];
    ·help me be careful about what I say [^Lkeep watch on the door of my mouth; Prov. 13:3; 21:23; James 3:1–12].
⁴ ·Take away my desire to do evil [^LDon’t incline my heart to an evil matter]
    or to join others in doing wrong.
Don’t let me eat tasty food
    with those who do evil.

⁵ If a ·good [righteous] person ·punished [^Lhit] me, that would be ·kind [an act of loyalty].
    If he corrected me, that would be like perfumed oil on my head.
    ·I [^LMy head] shouldn’t refuse it.
But I pray against those who do evil.