Znaleziono 27 Wyniki dla: Riddle
To these, Samson proposed that he should ask them a riddle; if they could answer it within seven days, while the feasting lasted, he would give each of them a linen shirt and a new garment; (Judges 14, 12)
if they could not, each of them should do the same by him. Tell us the riddle, they said; let us hear it. (Judges 14, 13)
And at last, on the eve of the seventh day, they went to Samson’s wife; Use all thy arts, they said, with thy husband, and make him tell thee what the riddle means; or we will burn thy father’s house down, and thyself with it; didst thou bid us to the wedding only to strip us bare? (Judges 14, 15)
Already, when she was alone with Samson, she was ever weeping and bemoaning herself, Thou art weary of me, thou dost not love me any longer; thou hast asked these neighbours of mine a riddle, and thou wilt not tell me the answer. Nay, said he, why should I tell thee? Have I not kept it secret from my own father and mother? (Judges 14, 16)
and they, before the sun of the seventh day had set, asked Samson, What is sweeter than honey, what is stronger than a lion? You have been yoking my heifer, said he, to your plough, or my riddle would be unanswered still. (Judges 14, 18)
Then the spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he went down to Ascalon and there slew thirty men, whose clothes he stripped off and gave to the answerers of his riddle. So, in high displeasure, he went back to his father’s house, (Judges 14, 19)
attentive enough, while I still hoped to hear the truth from you; but no, not one of you has convinced Job, or answered his riddle. (Job 32, 12)
I set myself to read the riddle, but it proved a hard search, (Psalms 72, 16)
A riddle, O my God, thy dealings with me, so vast their scope! (Psalms 138, 17)
The wise man, there is none like him. O for one who should read the riddle! (Ecclesiastes 7, 31)
Nay, I understood too well that God’s dealings with man, here under the sun, are past all accounting for; the more a man labours to read that riddle, the less he finds out, and he least of all, that boasts himself wise in the reading of it. (Ecclesiastes 8, 17)
For her, no secret, no riddle is too dark; her prudent counsel will be my guide, the fame of her my protection. (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 11)
