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; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
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, "Put forth your riddle, that we may hear it." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Judges 14:14 He 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Judges 14:15 It 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?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Judges 14:16 Samson'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?" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Judges 14:17 She 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 sore; and she told the riddle to the children of her people. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
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." (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Judges 14:19 The 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. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Psalms 49:4 I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle on the harp. (WEB DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Ezekiel 17:2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel; (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Habakkuk 2:6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting riddle against him, and say: 'Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and that ladeth himself with many pledges!' (JPS DBY)