Luke 15:16

He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.

Majority Standard Bible

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 hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.

17Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food, but I am starving to death!

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Cross References

Job 30:4They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

Psalms 142:4Look to my right and see; no one attends to me. There is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.

Isaiah 55:2Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.

Lamentations 4:5Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.

Jonah 2:2saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You 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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