And Delilah said to Sampson, Tell me, wherein lies your great strength, and with what may you be bound, that you may be humbled.

And Delilah said to Sampson, Behold, you have deceived me, and told me lies; tell me, I intreat you, what you may be bound [with]. And he said to her, If you should weave the seven locks of my head with the web, and should fasten them with the pin into the wall, then shall I be weak as another man.

And it came to pass as she pressed him sore with her words continually, and pestered him, that his spirit failed almost to death.

[ 3:7] And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes to look upon and beautiful to contemplate, and having taken of its fruit she ate, and she gave to her husband also with her, and they ate.

And when much time had passed, his wife said to him, How long will you hold out, saying, [ 2:9A] Behold, I wait yet a little while, expecting the hope of my deliverance? [ 2:9B] For behold, your memorial is abolished from the earth, even your sons and daughters, the pangs and pains of my womb which I bore in vain with sorrows; [ 2:9C] and you yourself sit down to spend the nights in the open air among the corruption of worms, [ 2:9D] and I am a wanderer and a servant from place to place and house to house, waiting for the setting of the sun, that I may rest from my labors, and my pangs which now beset me: [ 2:9E] but curse the Lord, and die.

So with much conversation she prevailed on him to go astray, and with the snares of her lips forced him from [the right path].

I say to you, even if he will not get up and give to him, because he is his friend, yet on account of his persistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

And he did not want to for a time; but afterward he said within himself, 'although I do not fear God, nor have regard for man,

yet because this widow bothers me I will give justice to her, lest she wear me out by forever coming to me.'"

to remove you far from the straight way, and to estrange you from a righteous purpose. [My] son, let not evil counsel overtake you,

[of her] who has forsaken the instruction of her youth, and has forgotten the covenant of God.