Judges 14:14-16

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁴ And he said to them,

And they could not in three days tell what the riddle was.

¹⁵ On the fourth^[a] day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?” ¹⁶ 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?”