Verse 17
But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare and I perish here with hunger.
The glory of this prodigal is that he told himself the truth. Instead of a false braggadocio by which he might have screwed up his courage to stick it out, he simply faced up to the facts of his hunger, loneliness, and hopelessness. The "life" which he no doubt expected when he left home had turned into "death" for him.
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