¹Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.

¹参孙娶非利士女子为妻

²He came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me as wife.”

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。”

³Then his father and his mother said to him, “Is there never a woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among 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.”

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。”

⁴But his father and his mother didn’t know that it was of Yahweh; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines had rule over Israel.

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。

⁵Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah: and behold, a young lion roared against him.

⁵参孙杀壮狮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。

⁶The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat; and he had nothing in his hand: but he didn’t tell his father or his mother what he had done.

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。

⁷He went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.

⁷参孙下去，和那女子说话，就看中了她。

⁸After a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.

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。

⁹He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and 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 body of the lion.

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。

¹⁰His father went down to the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.

¹⁰参孙的谜语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。

¹¹It happened, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.

¹¹众人看见参孙，就请了三十个人陪伴他。

¹²Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;

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。

¹³but if you can’t declare it to me, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing.” They said to him, “Put forth your riddle, that we may hear it.”

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。”

¹⁴He said to them, “Out of the eater came forth food. Out of the strong came forth sweetness.” They couldn’t in three days declare the riddle.

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。

¹⁵It happened on the seventh day, that 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? Is it not so?”

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？”

¹⁶Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You have put forth a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it me.” He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?”

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？”

¹⁷She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it happened on the seventh day, that he told her, because she pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.

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。

¹⁸The 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 plowed with my heifer, you wouldn’t have found out my riddle.”

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。”

¹⁹The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and struck thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave the changes of clothing to those who declared the riddle. His anger was kindled, and he went up to his father’s house.

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。

²⁰But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

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。