Samson's wife wept before him, and said, You do but hate me, and don't love me: you have put forth a riddle to the children of my people, and haven't told it me. He said to her, Behold, I haven't told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?
And so Samson said to these thirty Philistines, I'm gonna give you a riddle: and if you can tell me the riddle by the time of the wedding day, then I will give you thirty shirts and thirty changes of garments: But if you can't tell me the riddle at the end of the seven days, then you gotta give me thirty shirts and thirty changes of garments ( Judges 14:12-13 ).