Judges 14:16-18
International Standard Version
16 So Samson’s wife cried in front of him and accused him, “You only hate me. You don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to my relatives, but you haven’t told the solution[a] to me.”
Samson responded, “Look, I haven’t told my parents,[b] either. Why[c] should I tell you?”
17 So she kept on crying in front of him for the entire seven days of the wedding party. On the seventh day he told the solution[d] to her because she nagged him, and then she told the solution to[e] the riddle to her relatives.
18 Then the men of the city answered him just before sunset on the seventh day:
“What is sweeter than honey?
What are stronger than lions?”
Samson[f] responded,
“If you hadn’t plowed with my heifer,
you wouldn’t have solved my riddle.”
Footnotes
- Judges 14:16 Lit. told it
- Judges 14:16 Lit. my father and my mother
- Judges 14:16 The Heb. lacks either. Why
- Judges 14:17 Lit. it
- Judges 14:17 The Heb. lacks the solution to
- Judges 14:18 Lit. He
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