13 “After a few days, the younger son gathered his possessions and left for a country far away from home. There he wasted everything he had on a wild lifestyle.
14 He had nothing left when a severe famine spread throughout that country. He had nothing to live on.
15 So he got a job from someone in that country and was sent to feed pigs in the fields.
16 No one in the country would give him any food, and he was so hungry that he would have eaten what the pigs were eating.
17 “Finally, he came to his senses. He said, ‘How many of my father’s hired men have more food than they can eat, while I’m starving to death here?
18 I’ll go at once to my father, and I’ll say to him, “Father, I’ve sinned against heaven and you.
19 I don’t deserve to be called your son anymore. Make me one of your hired men.” ’