RIDDLE

Passages on this topic · 23

• Judges 14:12

  Samson 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;

• Judges 14:13

  but 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, “Tell us your riddle, that we may hear it.”

• Judges 14:14

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

• Judges 14:15

  On the seventh day, 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? Isn’t that so?”

• Judges 14:16

  Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, “You just hate me, and don’t love me. You’ve told a riddle to the children of my people, and haven’t told it to me.” He said to her, “Behold, I haven’t told my father or my mother, so why should I tell you?”

• Judges 14:17

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

• Judges 14:18

  The 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.”

• Proverbs 30:15

  “The leach has two daughters: ‘Give, give.’ “There are three things that are never satisfied; four that don’t say, ‘Enough:’

• Proverbs 30:16

  Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough.’

• Proverbs 30:18

  “There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand:

• Proverbs 30:19

  The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent on a rock; the way of a ship in the middle of the sea; and the way of a man with a maiden.

• Proverbs 30:20

  “So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’

• Proverbs 30:21

  “For three things the earth tremble, and under four, it can’t bear up:

• Proverbs 30:22

  For a servant when he is king; a fool when he is filled with food;

• Proverbs 30:23

  for an unloved woman when she is married; and a servant who is heir to her mistress.

• Proverbs 30:24

  “There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise:

• Proverbs 30:25

  the ants are not a strong people, yet they provide their food in the summer.

• Proverbs 30:26

  The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks.

• Proverbs 30:27

  The locusts have no king, yet they advance in ranks.

• Proverbs 30:28

  You can catch a lizard with your hands, yet it is in kings’ palaces.

• Proverbs 30:29

  “There are three things which are stately in their march, four which are stately in going:

• Proverbs 30:30

  The lion, which is mightiest among animals, and doesn’t turn away for any;

• Proverbs 30:31

  the greyhound, the male goat also; and the king against whom there is no rising up.