< Judges 14 >

1 And Samson goes down to Timnath, and sees a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines,
参孙下到亭拿,在那里看见一个女子,是非利士人的女儿。
2 and comes up and declares [it] to his father and to his mother, and says, “I have seen a woman in Timnath, of the daughters of the Philistines; and now, take her for me for a wife.”
参孙上来禀告他父母说:“我在亭拿看见一个女子,是非利士人的女儿,愿你们给我娶来为妻。”
3 And his father says to him—also his mother, “Is there no woman among the daughters of your brothers, and among all my people, that you are going to take a woman from the uncircumcised Philistines?” And Samson says to his father, “Take her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”
他父母说:“在你弟兄的女儿中,或在本国的民中,岂没有一个女子,何至你去在未受割礼的非利士人中娶妻呢?”参孙对他父亲说:“愿你给我娶那女子,因我喜悦她。”
4 And his father and his mother have not known that it [is] from YHWH, that He is seeking a meeting of the Philistines; and the Philistines are ruling over Israel at that time.
他的父母却不知道这事是出于耶和华,因为他找机会攻击非利士人。那时,非利士人辖制以色列人。
5 And Samson goes down—also his father and his mother, to Timnath, and they come to the vineyards of Timnath, and behold, a lion’s whelp roars at meeting him,
参孙跟他父母下亭拿去,到了亭拿的葡萄园,见有一只少壮狮子向他吼叫。
6 and the Spirit of YHWH prospers over him, and he tears it as the tearing of a kid, and there is nothing in his hand, and he has not declared to his father and to his mother that which he has done.
耶和华的灵大大感动参孙,他虽然手无器械,却将狮子撕裂,如同撕裂山羊羔一样。他行这事并没有告诉父母。
7 And he goes down and speaks to the woman, and she is right in the eyes of Samson;
参孙下去与女子说话,就喜悦她;
8 and he turns back after [some] days to take her, and turns aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, a swarm of bees [are] in the body of the lion—and honey.
过了些日子,再下去要娶那女子,转向道旁要看死狮,见有一群蜂子和蜜在死狮之内,
9 And he takes it down on to his hands, and goes on, going and eating; and he goes to his father, and to his mother, and gives to them, and they eat, and he has not declared to them that he took down the honey from the body of the lion.
就用手取蜜,且吃且走;到了父母那里,给他父母,他们也吃了;只是没有告诉这蜜是从死狮之内取来的。
10 And his father goes down to the woman, and Samson makes a banquet there, for so the young men does;
他父亲下去见女子。参孙在那里设摆筵宴,因为向来少年人都有这个规矩。
11 and it comes to pass, when they see him, that they take thirty companions, and they are with him.
众人看见参孙,就请了三十个人陪伴他。
12 And Samson says to them, “Now let me put forth a riddle to you; if you certainly declare it to me [in] the seven days of the banquet, and have found [it] out, then I have given thirty linen shirts and thirty changes of garments to you;
参孙对他们说:“我给你们出一个谜语,你们在七日筵宴之内,若能猜出意思告诉我,我就给你们三十件里衣,三十套衣裳;
13 and if you are not able to declare [it] to me, then you have given thirty linen shirts and thirty changes of garments to me.” And they say to him, “Put forth your riddle, and we hear it!”
你们若不能猜出意思告诉我,你们就给我三十件里衣,三十套衣裳。”他们说:“请将谜语说给我们听。”
14 And he says to them: “Out of the eater came forth something to eat, And out of the strong came forth [something] sweet”; and they were not able to declare the riddle [in] three days.
参孙对他们说: 吃的从吃者出来; 甜的从强者出来。 他们三日不能猜出谜语的意思。
15 And it comes to pass, on the seventh day, that they say to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he declare the riddle to us, lest we burn you and the house of your father with fire; have you not called for us [here] to rob us?”
到第七天,他们对参孙的妻说:“你诓哄你丈夫,探出谜语的意思告诉我们,免得我们用火烧你和你父家。你们请了我们来,是要夺我们所有的吗?”
16 And Samson’s wife weeps for it and says, “You have only hated me, and have not loved me; you have put forth the riddle to the sons of my people, but have not declared it to me”; and he says to her, “Behold, I have not declared [it] to my father and to my mother—and I declare [it] to you?”
参孙的妻在丈夫面前啼哭说:“你是恨我,不是爱我,你给我本国的人出谜语,却没有将意思告诉我。”参孙回答说:“连我父母我都没有告诉,岂可告诉你呢?”
17 And she weeps for it the seven days [in] which their banquet has been, and it comes to pass on the seventh day that he declares [it] to her, for she has distressed him; and she declares the riddle to the sons of her people.
七日筵宴之内,她在丈夫面前啼哭,到第七天逼着他,他才将谜语的意思告诉他妻,他妻就告诉本国的人。
18 And the men of the city say to him on the seventh day, before the sun goes in: “What [is] sweeter than honey? And what [is] stronger than a lion?” And he says to them: “Unless you had plowed with my heifer, You had not found out my riddle.”
到第七天,日头未落以前,那城里的人对参孙说: 有什么比蜜还甜呢? 有什么比狮子还强呢? 参孙对他们说: 你们若非用我的母牛犊耕地, 就猜不出我谜语的意思来。
19 And the Spirit of YHWH prospers over him, and he goes down to Ashkelon, and strikes down thirty of their men, and takes their armor, and gives the changes to those declaring the riddle; and his anger burns, and he goes up to the house of his father;
耶和华的灵大大感动参孙,他就下到亚实基伦,击杀了三十个人,夺了他们的衣裳,将衣裳给了猜出谜语的人。参孙发怒,就上父家去了。
20 and Samson’s wife becomes his companion’s, who had attended to him.
参孙的妻便归了参孙的陪伴,就是作过他朋友的。

< Judges 14 >