He even longed to satisfy his hunger with the bean-pods on which the pigs were feeding; and no one gave him anything.
Do not give what is sacred to dogs; nor yet throw your pearls before pigs, lest they should trample them under their feet, and then turn and attack you.
So he went and engaged himself to one of the people of that country, who sent him into his fields to tend pigs.
But, 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!