Luke 15:16

He was so hungry that he would have eaten even the pig food, but no one gave him anything.

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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

15So he went and took a job with one of the farmers there who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.

17When he came to his senses, he said to himself, ‘All of my father's workers have more than enough to eat—why am I dying from hunger here?

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Cross References

Job 30:4There they pick desert herbs and the leaves of bushes, and eat the roots of broom trees.

Psalms 142:4I look to my right for someone to support me—but no one pays me any attention. There's no safe place for me—no one cares about me at all.

Isaiah 55:2Why are you spending money on what isn't food, and why work for something that doesn't satisfy you? Listen carefully to me: eat what is good, and you'll enjoy the very best food.

Lamentations 4:5Those who used to eat gourmet food now die starving in the streets. Those who dressed in fine clothes from their childhood now live in heaps of rubbish.

Jonah 2:2He began, “In my agony I cried out to the Lord and he answered me; from the depths of Sheol I pleaded for help and you answered me.

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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