Judges 14:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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?”

Cross References

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.

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 16:16

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