Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Desiring
Crumbs
General references
Bible References
Desiring
1 Corinthians 4:11
Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place;
2 Corinthians 11:27
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Crumbs
Matthew 15:27
And she said, True, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
Mark 7:28
And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
John 6:12
When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
General references
Proverbs 28:6
Better is the poor who walks in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.
Luke 17:27
They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.