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OET (OET-LV) To but himself having_come he_was_saying:
How_many hired ones of_the father of_me are_being_plentiful of_bread, but I am_perishing with_famine here?
OET (OET-RV) But he eventually came to his senses and said to himself, ‘Even my father’s workers have plenty of good, but here I am in this place dying of starvation.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
εἰς ἑαυτὸν & ἐλθὼν
to himself & /having/_come
This idiom means that he became able to understand his situation clearly and realized that he had made a terrible mistake. Alternate translation: “realizing the situation he was in”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / quotesinquotes
ἔφη, πόσοι μίσθιοι τοῦ πατρός μου περισσεύονται ἄρτων, ἐγὼ δὲ λιμῷ ὧδε ἀπόλλυμαι
˱he˲_/was/_saying how_many hired_‹ones› ˱of˲_the father ˱of˲_me /are/_abounding ˱of˲_bread I but ˱with˲_famine here /am/_perishing
If it would be helpful in your language, you could translate this so that there is not a quotation within a quotation. Alternate translation: “he told himself that all of his father’s hired servants had more than enough loaves to eat, but he was perishing from hunger where he was”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / exclamations
πόσοι μίσθιοι τοῦ πατρός μου περισσεύονται ἄρτων, ἐγὼ δὲ λιμῷ ὧδε ἀπόλλυμαι
how_many hired_‹ones› ˱of˲_the father ˱of˲_me /are/_abounding ˱of˲_bread I but ˱with˲_famine here /am/_perishing
This is an exclamation, not a question. Alternate translation: “All of my father’s hired servants have more than enough loaves to eat, but I am perishing from hunger here”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
ἄρτων
˱of˲_bread
The young man is using one kind of food, loaves, to mean food in general. Alternate translation: “food”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / hyperbole
λιμῷ & ἀπόλλυμαι
˱with˲_famine & /am/_perishing
This could mean: (1) it is a figurative overstatement for emphasis. Alternate translation: “have so little to eat” (2) the young man has literally been starving. Alternate translation: “am about to die of starvation”
15:1-32 Chapter 15 contains three related parables of things lost and found: a sheep (15:1-7), a coin (15:8-10), and a son (15:11-32). The loss of something loved causes deep sorrow, whereas finding it brings great joy. There is great rejoicing in heaven when lost sinners return to their heavenly Father.
OET (OET-LV) To but himself having_come he_was_saying:
How_many hired ones of_the father of_me are_being_plentiful of_bread, but I am_perishing with_famine here?
OET (OET-RV) But he eventually came to his senses and said to himself, ‘Even my father’s workers have plenty of good, but here I am in this place dying of starvation.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.