Judges 16:15

She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”

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WEBBE

She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.”

BSB

“How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!”

KJV

And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.

ASV

And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.

BBE

And she said to him, Why do you say you are my lover when your heart is not mine? Three times you have made sport of me, and have not made clear to me the secret of your great strength.

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וַתֹּאמֶר va·to·mer and she said H559 אֵלָיו 'e·lav to him H413 אֵיךְ 'eikh how H349 תֹּאמַר to·mar will you say H559 אֲהַבְתִּיךְ 'a·hav·tikh I love you H157 וְלִבְּךָ ve·li·be·kha and heart your H3820 אֵין 'ein not H369 אִתִּי 'i·ti [is] with me H854 זֶה zeh this H2088 שָׁלֹשׁ sha·losh three H7969 פְּעָמִים pe·'a·mim times H6471 הֵתַלְתָּ he·tal·ta you have deceived H2048 בִּי bi (in) (the) me H9030 וְלֹא־ ve·lo'- and not H3808 הִגַּדְתָּ hi·gad·ta you have told H5046 לִּי li to (the) me H9030 בַּמֶּה ba·meh (in) how H4100 כֹּחֲךָ ko·cha·kha [is] strength your H3581 גָדוֹל ga·dol great H1419

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 4–17

Samson had been more than once brought into mischief and danger by the love of women, yet he would not take warning, but is again taken in the same snare, and this third time is fatal. Licentiousness is one of the things that take away the heart. This is a deep pit into which many have fallen; but from which few have escaped, and those by a miracle of mercy, with the loss of reputation and usefulness, of almost all, except their souls. The anguish of the suffering is ten thousand times greater than all the pleasures of the sin.

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