15 On the fourth¹ day they said to Samson’s wife, ^c“Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, ^dlest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?” 16 And Samson’s wife wept over him and said, ^e“You only hate me; you do not love me. You have put a riddle to my people, and you have not told me what it is.” And he said to her, “Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?” 17 She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and on the seventh day he told her, because ^fshe pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her people.