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Riddle

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Judges 14:12And Samson saith to them, ‘Let me, I pray you, put forth to you a riddle; if ye certainly declare it to me in the seven days of the banquet, and have found it out, then I have given to you thirty linen shirts, and thirty changes of garments;Judges 14:13and if ye are not able to declare it to me, then ye have given to me thirty linen shirts, and thirty changes of garments.’ And they say to him, ‘Put forth thy riddle, and we hear it!’Judges 14:14And he saith to them: ‘Out of the eater came forth meat, And out of the strong came forth sweetness;’ and they were not able to declare the riddle in three days.Judges 14:15And it cometh to pass, on the seventh day, that they say to Samson’s wife, ‘Entice thy husband, that he declare to us the riddle, lest we burn thee and the house of thy father with fire; to possess us have ye called for us? is it not?’Judges 14:16And Samson’s wife weepeth for it, and saith, ‘Thou hast only hated me, and hast not loved me; the riddle thou hast put forth to the sons of my people—and to me thou hast not declared it;’ and he saith to her, ‘Lo, to my father and to my mother I have not declared it—and to thee I declare it!’Judges 14:17And she weepeth for it the seven days in which their banquet hath been, and it cometh to pass on the seventh day that he declareth it to her, for she hath distressed him; and she declareth the riddle to the sons of her people.Judges 14:18And the men of the city say to him on the seventh day, before the sun goeth in:—‘What is sweeter than honey? And what stronger than a lion?’ And he saith to them: ‘Unless ye had ploughed with my heifer, Ye had not found out my riddle.’Proverbs 30:15To the leech are two daughters, ‘Give, give, Lo, three things are not satisfied, Four have not said ‘Sufficiency;’Proverbs 30:16Sheol, and a restrained womb, Earth—it is not satisfied with water, And fire—it hath not said, ‘Sufficiency,’Proverbs 30:18Three things have been too wonderful for me, Yea, four that I have not known:Proverbs 30:19The way of the eagle in the heavens, The way of a serpent on a rock, The way of a ship in the heart of the sea, And the way of a man in youth.Proverbs 30:20So—the way of an adulterous woman, She hath eaten and hath wiped her mouth, And hath said, ‘I have not done iniquity.’Proverbs 30:21For three things hath earth been troubled, And for four—it is not able to bear:Proverbs 30:22For a servant when he reigneth, And a fool when he is satisfied with bread,Proverbs 30:23For a hated one when she ruleth, And a maid-servant when she succeedeth her mistress.Proverbs 30:24Four are little ones of earth, And they are made wiser than the wise:Proverbs 30:25The ants are a people not strong, And they prepare in summer their food,Proverbs 30:26Conies are a people not strong, And they place in a rock their house,Proverbs 30:27A king there is not to the locust, And it goeth out—each one shouting,Proverbs 30:28A spider with two hands taketh hold, And is in the palaces of a king.Proverbs 30:29Three there are going well, Yea, four are good in going:Proverbs 30:30An old lion—mighty among beasts, That turneth not back from the face of any,Proverbs 30:31A girt one of the loins, or a he-goat, And a king—no rising up with him.