NET Bible
"Samson said to them,“This time I am justified in doing the Philistines harm!”"
— Judges 15:3, NET Bible
“And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.”
“And Samson said unto them, This time shall I be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I do them a mischief. ”
“Samson said to them, "This time I will be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I harm them."”
“And Samson answered him: From this day I shall be blameless in what I do against the Philistines: for I will do you evils.”
“Then Samson said to them, This time I will give payment in full to the Philistines, for I am going to do them great evil.”
“And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.”
Samson Versus the Philistines Sometime later, during the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat as a gift and went to visit his bride. He said to her father,“I want to sleep with my bride in her bedroom!” But her father would not let him enter.
Her father said,“I really thought you absolutely despised her, so I gave her to your best man. Her younger sister is more attractive than she is. Take her instead!”
Samson said to them,“This time I am justified in doing the Philistines harm!”
Samson went and captured three hundred jackals and got some torches. He tied the jackals in pairs by their tails and then tied a torch to each pair.
He lit the torches and set the jackals loose in the Philistines’ standing grain. He burned up the grain heaps and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves.
The Philistines asked,“Who did this?” They were told,“Samson, the Timnite’s son-in-law, because the Timnite took Samson’s bride and gave her to his best man.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father.