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Psalm 141:3-5
Revised Standard Version

3 Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord,
    keep watch over the door of my lips!
4 Incline 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!

5 Let 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.

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  1. Psalm 141:5 Gk: Heb obscure
  2. Psalm 141:5 Cn: Heb for continually and my prayer
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Psalm 141:3-5
New International Version

3 Set a guard over my mouth,(A) Lord;
    keep watch over the door of my lips.(B)
4 Do not let my heart(C) be drawn to what is evil
    so that I take part in wicked deeds(D)
along with those who are evildoers;
    do not let me eat their delicacies.(E)

5 Let a righteous man strike me—that is a kindness;
    let him rebuke me(F)—that is oil on my head.(G)
My head will not refuse it,
    for my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers.

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