Luke 16:21
Good News Translation
hoping to eat the bits of food that fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs would come and lick his sores.

New Revised Standard Version
who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man’s table; even the dogs would come and lick his sores.

Contemporary English Version
He was happy just to eat the scraps that fell from the rich man's table. His body was covered with sores, and dogs kept coming up to lick them.

New American Bible
who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table. Dogs even used to come and lick his sores.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Desiring to be filled with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. And no one did give him: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Desiring to be filled with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. And no one did give him: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

desiring.

1 Corinthians 4:11 Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted and have no fixed abode.

2 Corinthians 11:27 In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness:

crumbs.

Matthew 15:27 But she said: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat of the crumbs that fall from the table of their masters.

Mark 7:28 But she answered and said to him: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat under the table of the crumbs of the children.

John 6:12 And when they were filled, he said to his disciples: gather up the fragments that remain, lest they be lost.

Context
The Rich Man and Lazarus
20And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his gate, full of sores, 21Desiring to be filled with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. And no one did give him: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 22And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was buried in hell.…
Cross References
Matthew 15:27
But she said: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat of the crumbs that fall from the table of their masters.

Luke 16:20
And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his gate, full of sores,

Luke 16:22
And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was buried in hell.

Luke 16:20
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