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Judges 14:16

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Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me.”
He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?”

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Judges 14:16 in other translations

And Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell thee?

Judges 14:16 · American Standard Version

Judges 14:16 in context

  1. 14He said to them,
    “Out of the eater came out food.
    Out of the strong came out sweetness.”
    They couldn’t in three days declare the riddle.
  2. 15On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Isn’t that so?”
  3. 16Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me.”
    He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?”
  4. 17She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted; and on the seventh day, he told her, because she pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.
  5. 18The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?”
    He said to them,
    “If you hadn’t plowed with my heifer,
    you wouldn’t have found out my riddle.”