16He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.


In Context

13 Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

14 When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.

15 He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

16 He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

17 But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!

18 I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, |Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

Luke 15:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:16And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

15:16He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

15:16And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks the swine did eat; and no man gave unto him.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

15:16And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:16And he longed to fill his belly with the husks which the swine were eating; and no one gave to him.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

15:16And he would fain have been filled with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:16And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat; and no man gave to him.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

15:16and he was desirous to fill his belly from the husks that the swine were eating, and no one was giving to him.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:16And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave to him.