士14:1 参孙下到亭拿，在亭拿看见了一个女子，是一个非利士人的女儿。
士14:1 Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines;
士14:2 参孙上来告诉他的父母，说：“我在亭拿看见一个女子，是一个非利士人的女儿；现在请你们把她娶来给我作妻子。”
士14:2 And when he came back he said to his father and mother, I have seen a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines: get her now for me for my wife.
士14:3 他的父母对他说：“在你兄弟的女儿中，或是在你所有的族人中，难道没有一个女子，以致你要去从那些未受割礼的非利士人中娶妻呢？”参孙对他的父亲说：“请你把她娶来给我，因为我看中她。”
士14:3 Then his father and mother said to him, Is there no woman among the daughters of your relations or among all my people, that you have to go for your wife to the Philistines, who are without circumcision? But Samson said to his father, Get her for me, for she is pleasing to me.
士14:4 他的父母却不知道这事是出于耶和华，因为他正在找机会攻击非利士人。那时非利士人正统治着以色列人。
士14:4 Now his father and mother had no knowledge that this was the purpose of the Lord, who had the destruction of the Philistines in mind. Now the Philistines at that time were ruling over Israel.
士14:5 参孙跟他的父母下到亭拿去，到了亭拿的葡萄园；忽然见一只少壮狮子向他吼叫。
士14:5 Then Samson went down to Timnah (and his father and his mother,) and came to the vine-gardens of Timnah; and a young lion came rushing out at him.
士14:6 耶和华的灵大大感动参孙，他虽然手里没有武器，竟把狮子撕裂，像人撕裂山羊羔一样；他没有把他所作的这事告诉他的父母。
士14:6 And the spirit of the Lord came on him with power, and, unarmed as he was, pulling the lion in two as one might do to a young goat, he put him to death; (but he said nothing to his father and mother of what he had done.)
士14:7 参孙下去，和那女子说话，就看中了她。
士14:7 So he went down and had talk with the woman; and she was pleasing to Samson.
士14:8 过了些日子，参孙回去迎娶那女子，他转向一旁去看看那只死了的狮子；看见有一群蜂子和一些蜂蜜在狮子的尸体内。
士14:8 Then after a time he went back to take her; and turning from the road to see the dead body of the lion, he saw a mass of bees in the body of the lion, and honey there.
士14:9 他刮了些蜂蜜，放在手里，就走了；他一面走，一面吃，直走到他的父母那里去；他又把蜂蜜给了他们，他们也吃了；但是他没有告诉他们这蜂蜜是从狮子的尸体内刮下来的。
士14:9 And he took the honey in his hand, and went on, tasting it on the way; and when he came to his father and mother he gave some to them; but did not say that he had taken the honey from the body of the lion.
士14:10 参孙的父亲下去见那女子，参孙在那里摆设了筵席，因为青年人都惯常这样行。
士14:10 Then Samson went down to the woman, and made a feast there, as was the way among young men.
士14:11 众人看见参孙，就请了三十个人陪伴他。
士14:11 And he took thirty friends, and they were with him.
士14:12 参孙对他们说：“现在让我给你们出一个谜语，你们在七天婚宴之内，如果能猜出来，把它的意思清楚告诉我，我就给你们三十件内衣、三十套衣服。
士14:12 And Samson said, Now I have a hard question for you: if you are able to give me the answer before the seven days of the feast are over, I will give you thirty linen robes and thirty changes of clothing;
士14:13 如果你们不能告诉我，你们就要给我三十件内衣、三十套衣服。”他们对他说：“请你把谜语说给我们听。”
士14:13 But if you are not able to give me the answer, then you will have to give me thirty linen robes and thirty changes of clothing. And they said to him, Put your hard question and let us see what it is.
士14:14 参孙对他们说：“可吃的从吃者出来；甜的从强者出来。”他们过了三日都不能说出谜语的意思。
士14:14 And he said, Out of the taker of food came food, and out of the strong came the sweet. And at the end of three days they were still not able to give the answer.
士14:15 到了第四天，他们对参孙的妻子说：“你要引诱你的丈夫，使他把谜语的意思告诉我们，否则我们用火烧你和你的父家。难道你们请了我们来，是要夺取我们所有的吗？”
士14:15 So on the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, Get from your husband the answer to his question by some trick or other, or we will have you and your father's house burned with fire; did you get us here to take all we have?
士14:16 参孙的妻子在丈夫面前哭哭啼啼，说：“你只是恨我，不是爱我；你给我的族人设谜语，却没有把谜语的意思告诉我。”参孙对她说：“连我父母我都没有告诉，怎能告诉你呢？”
士14:16 Then Samson's wife, weeping over him, said, Truly you have no love for me but only hate; you have put a hard question to the children of my people and have not given me the answer. And he said to her, See, I have not given the answer even to my father or my mother; am I to give it to you?
士14:17 在那七天婚宴期内，她在丈夫跟前常常哭哭啼啼；到了第七天，因为她催逼着参孙，参孙才告诉她；于是她把谜语的意思告诉她的族人。
士14:17 And all the seven days of the feast she went on weeping over him; and on the seventh day he gave her the answer, because she gave him no peace; and she sent word of it to the children of her people.
士14:18 到了第七天太阳未落以前，城里的人就对参孙说：“有什么比蜂蜜还甜呢？有什么比狮子还强呢？”参孙对他们说：“你们若不是用我的母牛犊耕田，你们就不会猜出我的谜语的意思来。”
士14:18 Then on the seventh day, before he went into the bride's room, the men of the town said to him, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said to them, If you had not been ploughing with my cow you would not have got the answer to my question.
士14:19 耶和华的灵大大感动参孙，参孙就下到亚实基伦，击杀了他们中间三十个人，拿了剥下来的衣服，把三十套衣服给了那些把谜语的意思说出来的人；参孙怒气冲冲地上自己的父家去了。
士14:19 And the spirit of the Lord came rushing on him, and he went down to Ashkelon and, attacking thirty men there, took their clothing from them, and gave it to the men who had given the answer to his hard question. Then, full of wrath, he went back to his father's house.
士14:20 参孙的妻子却归了一个陪伴参孙的人，就是作过他伴郎的。
士14:20 But Samson's wife was given to the friend who had been his best man.