Luke 15:16

He even longed to satisfy his hunger with the bean-pods on which the pigs were feeding; and 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 engaged himself to one of the people of that country, who sent him into his fields to tend pigs.

17But, when he came to himself, he said ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have more bread than they can eat, while here am I starving to death!

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Cross References

Psalms 142:4I look to the right and the left; but not a friend have I. No place of refuge is left me, not a man to care for me.

Jonah 2:2and said: I cried out of my distress, to the Lord and he answered me; out of the midst of Sheol I cried aloud, 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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