17 But she kept weeping over him the seven days that the banquet continued for them, and it came about on the seventh day that finally he told her, because she had pressured him.+ Then she told the riddle to the sons of her people.+

17 Finally he disclosed to her all his heart+ and said to her: “A razor+ has never come upon my head, because I am a Nazʹi·rite of God from my mother’s belly.+ If I did get shaved, my power also would certainly depart from me, and I should indeed grow weak and become like all other men.”+

9 Plead your own cause with your fellowman,+ and do not reveal the confidential talk of another;+

4 “Guard yourselves each one against his own companion,+ and put YOUR trust in no brother at all.+ For even every brother would positively supplant,+ and every companion himself would walk around as a mere slanderer,+

5 Do not put YOUR faith in a companion. Do not put YOUR trust in a confidential friend.+ From her who is lying in your bosom guard the openings of your mouth.+