Judges 16:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ Finally, after she had nagged him with her words day after day and pestered him, he was tired to death.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And when she pressed him day after day with her words and urged him, he was vexed to death.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was vexed unto death.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ She nagged him with her words day after day and begged him until he became worn out to the point of death.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And when she had been very troublesome to him, and over many days had continually stayed nearby, giving him no time to rest, his soul was faint, and he was weary, even unto death.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And when she pressed him much, and continually hung upon him for many days, giving him no time to rest, his soul fainted away, and was wearied even until death.

Judges 16:16 Cross References

Job 21:4

As for me, is my complaint addressed to mortals? Why should I not be impatient?

Jonah 4:9

But God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the bush?” And he said, “Yes, angry enough to die.”

Mark 14:24

He said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.

Luke 11:8

I tell you, even though he will not get up and give him anything out of friendship, at least because of his persistence he will get up and give him whatever he needs.

Luke 18:5

yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.’ ”

Judges 14:16

So Samson’s wife wept before him, saying, “You hate me; you do not really love me. You have asked a riddle of my people, but you have not explained it to me.” He said to her, “Look, I have not told my father or my mother. Why should I tell you?”

Judges 14:17

She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and because she nagged him, on the seventh day he told her. Then she explained the riddle to her people.

Judges 16:15

Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me three times now and have not told me what makes your strength so great.”

Judges 16:17

So he told her his whole secret and said to her, “A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If my head were shaved, then my strength would leave me; I would become weak and be like anyone else.”