15She 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.|


In Context

12 So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, |The Philistines are on you, Samson!| The ambush was waiting in the inner room. He broke them off his arms like a thread.

13 Delilah said to Samson, |Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.| He said to her, |If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web.|

14 She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, |The Philistines are on you, Samson!| He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.

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.|

16 It happened, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was troubled to death.

17 He told her all his heart, and said to her, |No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man.|

Judges 16:15 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

16:15Then she said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when you won't confide in me? This is the third time you have made a fool of me and haven't told me the secret of your great strength."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

16:15And 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. ]

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

16:15And Dalila said to him: How dost thou say thou lovest me, when thy mind is not with me? Thou hast told me lies these three times, and wouldst not tell me wherein thy great strength lieth.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

16:15And 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:15And 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 you have not told me wherein your great strength lies.|

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

16:15And 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:15And she said to 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 in what thy great strength lieth.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

16:15And she saith unto him, 'How dost thou say, I have loved thee, and thy heart is not with me? these three times thou hast played upon me, and hast not declared to me wherein thy great power is.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

16:15And 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 wherein your great strength lies.