Whenever the more vigorous of the flock came into heat, Jacob would place the branches in the troughs in front of the flock to make them mate by the branches.

But he didn't put the branches in front of any of the feeble members of the flock. As a result, the feeble ones belonged to Laban, but the stronger ones belonged to Jacob.

So he told them: From the eater came something edible; from the strong something sweet. For three days they couldn't solve the riddle.

Then the men of the city answered him just before sunset on the seventh day: "What is sweeter than honey? What are stronger than lions?" Samson responded, "If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, you wouldn't have solved my riddle."

Do you instill the horse with strength? Do you clothe its neck with a mane?

He paws the ground in the valley and rejoices in his strength; he goes out to face weapons.

It is vain to trust in a horse for deliverance, even with its great strength, it cannot deliver.

Where there are no oxen, the feeding trough is clean, but profits come through the strength of the ox.

Will you trust him because of his great strength and entrust your labor to him?

Now take a look at the strength that he has in his loins, and in the muscles of his abdomen.

"I won't be silent concerning his limbs, his mighty strength, and orderly frame.

"His neck is so powerful that all who meet him are terrified.

"After this, I continued to observe the night visions. And look! there was a fourth awe-inspiring, terrifying, and viciously strong animal! It had large, iron teeth. It devoured and crushed things, and trampled under its feet whatever remained. Different from all of the other previous animals, it had ten horns.