Judges 14
1 Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.
那時三松下到提默納；在那裏見了一個女子，她是培肋舍特人的女兒。
2 He came up, and told his father and his mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. Now therefore get her for me as my wife.”
三松上去稟告他的父母說：「我在提默納見了一個女子，她是培肋舍特人的女兒，願你們現今把她給我娶來為妻! 」
3 Then his father and his mother said to him, “Isn’t there a woman amongst your brothers’ daughters, or amongst all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?” Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she pleases me well.”
他的父母對他說：「難道在你兄弟的女兒中，在我們民族間沒有女子嗎﹖為什麼你要去從那些未受割損的培肋舍特人中間娶妻呢﹖」三松向他的父親說：「請給我娶了她! 因為我實在喜歡她。」
4 But his father and his mother didn’t know that it was of the LORD; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.
他的父母原不知道這事是出於上主，使他找機會攻擊培肋舍特，因為那時培肋舍特正統治以色列。
5 Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and his mother, and came to the vineyards of Timnah; and behold, a young lion roared at him.
三松往提默納去，來到提默納的葡萄園時，看，有一隻小獅子向他咆哮；
6 The LORD’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat with his bare hands, but he didn’t tell his father or his mother what he had done.
上主的神突然降在他身上，他當時雖赤手空拳，竟將那獅子撕裂，好像撕裂小山羊；他沒有把所作的這事告訴他的父母。
7 He went down and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.
此後他下去向那女子談情，三松很喜愛她。
8 After a while he returned to take her, and he went over to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
過了不久，回去娶她，繞路去看那隻死獅子。看，在獅子屍體內有一窩蜜蜂作了蜜。
9 He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went. He came to his father and mother and gave to them, and they ate, but he didn’t tell them that he had taken the honey out of the lion’s body.
他取了些蜜放在手中，繼續前行，一面走一面吃；來到他父母那裏，也給他們一些，他們也吃了，但他沒有告訴他們這蜜是從獅子屍體內取來的。
10 His father went down to the woman; and Samson made a feast there, for the young men used to do so.
三松又來到那女子那裏，有人為他設了婚筵，因為青年人們慣常這樣做。
11 When they saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.
但有人害怕他，便請來三十個同伴陪伴他。
12 Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;
三松對他們說：「讓我給你們說個謎語，如果你們能在這七天婚筵期內，給我猜出來，我就給你們三十件襯衫和三十套禮服。
13 but if you can’t tell me the answer, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing.” They said to him, “Tell us your riddle, that we may hear it.”
若是你們不能給我解說，你們就得給我三十件襯衫和三十套禮服。」他們對他說：「請你把謎語講給我們聽。」
14 He said to them, “Out of the eater came out food. Out of the strong came out sweetness.” They couldn’t in three days declare the riddle.
他向他們說：「食者生出食品，強者生出甘甜。」他們三天之久不能解這謎語。
15 On the seventh day, they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Isn’t that so?”
到了第四天，他們對三松的妻子說：「請引誘你的丈夫，把謎語說給你，以免我們放火燒你和你的父家。難道你請了我們來，是為了奪取我們的東西嗎﹖」
16 Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me.” He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?”
三松的妻子就在他眼前哭哭啼啼說：「你是恨我，而不是愛我! 你給我的同胞說謎語，都不解給我聽。」三松對她說：「你看，我都沒有告訴我的父母，怎能告訴你﹖」
17 She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted; and on the seventh day, he told her, because she pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.
那七天婚筵期內，她常在他跟前哭哭啼啼；到了第七天，由於她不斷的催逼，三松便將謎底告訴了她；她就把謎底告訴自己的同胞。
18 The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” He said to them, “If you hadn’t ploughed with my heifer, you wouldn’t have found out my riddle.”
到了第七天，在他進洞房之前，本城的人給他說：「有什麼比蜜還甜﹖有什麼比獅子還強﹖」他向他們說：「你們若不是用我的小母牛耕田，你們決不會猜出我的謎底。」
19 The LORD’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck thirty men of them. He took their plunder, then gave the changes of clothing to those who declared the riddle. His anger burnt, and he went up to his father’s house.
上主的神又突然降在他身上，他就下到阿市刻隆，擊殺了三十個人，拿了所劫奪的東西，把三十套禮服送給猜中謎語的人；以後憤怒的回到父親家裏。
20 But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his friend.
三松的妻子以後卻跟了作他伴郎的一個同伴。
