Don’t say, “He hurt me, so I will do the same to him. I will punish him for the things he did to me.”
If someone does something against you, don’t try to punish him yourself. Wait for the Lord! In the end, he will make you the winner.
Be sure that no person pays back wrong for wrong. But always try to do what is good for each other and for all people.
Then 3000 men from the family group of Judah went to Samson. They went to the cave near the Rock of Etam. They said to him, “What have you done to us? Don’t you know that the Philistine people rule over us?”