Luke 15:16

And he longed to fill his belly from the husks that the swine ate, and no man gave to him.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

In Context

15And having gone, he was joined to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

17But when he came to himself, he said, How many hired men of my father's have abundance of loaves, but I am perishing with hunger.

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Cross References

Job 30:4They pluck mallows by the bushes, and the roots of the juniper are their food.

Psalms 142:4Look on [my] right hand, and see, for there is no man who knows me. Refuge has failed me. No man cares for my soul.

Isaiah 55:2Why do ye spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Lamentations 4:5Those who fed luxuriously are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

Jonah 2:2And he said, I called because of my affliction to LORD, and he answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, [and] thou heard my voice.

Matthew Henry on Luke 15:12-32

The Prodigal Son. 11 And he said, A certain man had two sons: 12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. 13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that… Read the whole commentary →

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