Normally, riddles are supposed to have some connection to universal situations or concepts. This riddle, however, relates not to a universal phenomenon but to a specific, private incident in Samson’s life, something the Philistines could never guess. It is unfair. Unless you were Samson, you could not figure out this riddle.
14 And he said to them, “Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the strong came something sweet.”And in three days they could not solve the riddle.