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The speaker accepts a righteous person's correction, likened to welcome oil on the head.
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Psalms 141:5

let him rebuke me—it is oil for the head

the lifting up of my hands as the evening offering · Psalms 141

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5Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness; let him rebuke me—it is oil for the head; let my head not refuse it. Yet my prayer continues amid their calamities.

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