As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?
Judges 16:16 - Revised Standard Version And when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 And when she pressed him day after day with her words and urged him, he was vexed to death. American Standard Version (1901) 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 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 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 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. |
As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?
But God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the plant?” And he said, “I do well to be angry, angry enough to die.”
And he said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.
I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him whatever he needs.
yet because this widow bothers me, I will vindicate her, or she will wear me out by her continual coming.’ ”
And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, “You only hate me, you do not love me; you have put a riddle to my countrymen, and you have not told me what it is.” And he said to her, “Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?”
She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted; and on the seventh day he told her, because she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her countrymen.
And she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me wherein your great strength lies.”
And he told her all his mind, 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 I be shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.”