Verse 15:[1] And she said unto him, (Judg. 14:16) 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.
[When thine heart is not with me] That is to say, thou hast sufficiently demonstrated to me that I am not loved by thee. For whoever truly and sincerely loves, entrusts to the beloved all their secrets (Bonfrerius).
[וְלִבְּךָ] Thine heart, that is, the affection of thine heart, namely, love (Piscator). While thou art of a heart averse to me (Vatablus).
When thine heart is not with me; when thy love consists only in outward expression, not in affection, and thou wilt not open thy heart to me, as one true friend doth to another.
[1] Hebrew: וַתֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלָ֗יו אֵ֚יךְ תֹּאמַ֣ר אֲהַבְתִּ֔יךְ וְלִבְּךָ֖ אֵ֣ין אִתִּ֑י זֶ֣ה שָׁלֹ֤שׁ פְּעָמִים֙ הֵתַ֣לְתָּ בִּ֔י וְלֹא־הִגַּ֣דְתָּ לִּ֔י בַּמֶּ֖ה כֹּחֲךָ֥ גָדֽוֹל׃
Samson has already fallen for this sort of manipulation once before (Judges 14:16). Let us commit rather to learn God's lessons for us in Scripture and Providence.
Matthew Henry: 'The disclosure he at last made of this great secret; and, if the disclosure proved fatal to him, he must thank himself, who had not power to keep his own counsel from one that manifestly sought his ruin. Surely in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird, but in Samson's sight is the net spread, and yet he is taken in it. If he had not been blind before the Philistines put out his eyes, he might have seen himself betrayed. Delilah signifies a consumer; she was so to him. Observe, 1. How she teazed him, telling him she would not believe he loved her, unless he would gratify her in this matter (Judge…
Hebrew: Today we have some basic exercise in the formation of questions.