Judges 14
1 One day when Samson was in Timnah [town], he saw a young Philistine woman there.
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 When he returned home, he told his mother and father, “I saw a young Philistine woman in Timnah, and I want you to get her for me so I can marry her.”
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 His mother and father objected very strongly. They said, “Is there no woman from our tribe, or from the other Israeli tribes, that you could marry? Why must you go to the heathen Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me! She is the one I want!”
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 His mother and father did not realize that Yahweh was arranging this. He was preparing a way for [Samson to defeat] the Philistines, who were ruling over Israel at that time.
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 So, as Samson was going down to Timnah, followed by his mother and father, a young lion attacked Samson near the vineyards close to Timnah.
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 Then Yahweh’s Spirit came upon Samson powerfully, with the result that he tore the lion apart with his hands. He did it [as easily] as if it were a young goat. But he did not tell his mother and father about it.
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 When they arrived in Timnah, Samson talked with the young woman, and he liked her very much. [And his father made arrangements for the wedding].
此後他下去向那女子談情，三松很喜愛她。
8 Later, when Samson returned to Timnah for the wedding, he turned off the path to see the carcass of the lion. He discovered that [after other creatures had eaten all the flesh], a swarm of bees [had made a hive in the skeleton and] had made some 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 So he scooped some of the honey into his hands and ate some of it as he was walking along. He also gave some of it to his mother and father, but he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the skeleton of the lion, [because anyone dedicated to God was not to touch any corpse].
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 As his father was making the final arrangements for the marriage, Samson gave a party [for the young men in that area]. That was the custom for men to do when they were about to be married.
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 Thirty young man were invited to the party.
但有人害怕他，便請來三十個同伴陪伴他。
12 Samson said to them, “Allow me to tell you a riddle. If you tel me the meaning of my riddle during these seven days of the celebration, I will give each of you a linen robe and an extra set of clothes.
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 cannot tell me the meaning, you must each give me a linen robe and an extra set of clothes.” They replied, “All right. Tell us your riddle.”
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 So he said, “From the thing that eats came something to eat; out of something strong came something sweet.” But for three days they could not tell him the meaning of 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 fourth day, they said to Samson’s bride, “Ask your husband to tell you the meaning of the riddle. If you do not do that, we will burn down your father’s house, with you inside it! Did you invite us here only to make us poor [by forcing us to buy a lot of clothes for your husband]?”
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 So Samson’s wife came to him, crying, and said to him, “You do not really love me. You hate me! You have told a riddle to my friends, but you have not told me the meaning of the riddle!” He replied, “I have not told the meaning of the riddle even to my mother and father, so why should I tell it to 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 continued to cry every time she was with him, all during the rest of the celebration. Finally, on the seventh day, because she continued to nag him, he told her the meaning of the riddle. Then she told it to the young men.
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 So, before sunset on the seventh day, the young men came to Samson and said to him, “What/Nothing is sweeter than honey [RHQ]. What/Nothing is stronger than a lion [RHQ]!” Samson replied, “[You should not force a heifer to] plow a field [MET]. Similarly, if you had not forced my bride to ask me about the riddle [MET], you would not have known the answer to 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 Then Yahweh’s Spirit powerfully took control of Samson. He went down to [the coast at] Ashkelon [town], and killed 30 men. He took their clothes [and went back to Timnah] and gave them to the men who had told him the meaning of the riddle. But he was very angry about what had happened, so he went back home to live with his mother and father.
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 So (Samson’s wife was given/the bride’s father gave Samson’s wife) to the man who who had been Samson’s best man at the wedding, [but Samson did not know that].
三松的妻子以後卻跟了作他伴郎的一個同伴。
