Still, no one gave him anything to eat, and he wished he could fill his stomach with the husks the pigs were eating.
“Don’t give holy things to dogs, and don’t throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may stomp all over them and then turn around and tear you to pieces.
The son went to work for a citizen of the country, who sent him out to the fields to feed his pigs.
“Then he came to his senses and said, ‘All of my father’s hired servants have more than enough to eat, so why am I starving to death here?