Judges 16:16
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New International Version (©2011)
With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was sick to death of it.

New Living Translation (©2007)
She tormented him with her nagging day after day until he was sick to death of it.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
It came about when she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, that his soul was annoyed to death.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Because she nagged him day after day and pleaded with him until she wore him out,

International Standard Version (©2012)
She nagged him every day with this speech, pestering him until he was annoyed nearly to death.

NET Bible (©2006)
She nagged him every day and pressured him until he was sick to death of it.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Every day she made his life miserable with her questions. She pestered him until he wished he were dead.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;

American King James Version
And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed to death;

American Standard Version
And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was vexed unto death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when she pressed him much, and continually hung upon him for many days, giving him no time to rest, his soul fainted away, and was wearied even until death.

Darby Bible Translation
And when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death.

English Revised Version
And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was vexed unto death.

Webster's Bible Translation
And it came to pass when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed to death;

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

Young's Literal Translation
And it cometh to pass, because she distressed him with her words all the days, and doth urge him, and his soul is grieved to death,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

16:4-17 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.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 16. - So that. Omit so. The meaning is, that in consequence of her daily solicitation his soul was vexed (Judges 10:16) to death - literally, was so short, so impatient, as to be at the point to die.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him,.... Lay at him day after day to communicate the secret to him, gave him no rest, but was incessant in her applications to him:

so that his soul was vexed unto death: could hardly bear to live, but wished to die, being in the utmost perplexity what to do between two different passions, love and fear; on the one hand chained by his lust to this harlot, that was continually teasing him, and whom he had not an heart to leave, or otherwise that would have cleared him of his difficulties; and on the other hand, should he disclose the secret, he feared, and was in danger of losing his strength, in which his glory lay: or"his soul was shortened unto death'' (c);it was the means of shortening his days, and hastening his death. Abarbinel thinks that Samson was sensible of this, that his days were short, and the time of his death at hand; which made him the more willing to impart the secret. This may put in mind of the story of Milo, a man famous for his great strength, said to carry an ox upon his shoulders a furlong without breathing; of whom it is reported, that none of his adversaries could deliver themselves out of his hands, but his whore could, often contending with him; hence it is observed of him, that he was strong in body, but not of a manly soul (d); and there are many other things said (e) of him concerning his great strength, which seem to be taken from this history of Samson.

(c) "abbreviata est", Montanus, Drusius. So Munster. (d) Aelian. Var. Hist. l. 2. c. 24. (e) Vid. Pausan. Eliac. 2. sive. l. 6. p. 309.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

16. she pressed him daily with her words—Though disappointed and mortified, this vile woman resolved to persevere; and conscious how completely he was enslaved by his passion for her, she assailed him with a succession of blandishing arts, till she at length discovered the coveted secret.

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Delilah Discovers the Secret
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. 16And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed to death; 17That he told her all his heart, and said to her, There has not come a razor on my head; for I have been a Nazarite to God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man. …

Judges 16:15 Then 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."
Judges 16:17 So he told her everything. "No razor has ever been used on my head," he said, "because I have been a Nazirite dedicated to God from my mother's womb. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man."