Proverbs 21:20 contrasts the wise who store up with fools who consume everything — the prodigal is the fool who gulps down his wealth.

Proverbs 18:9 equates slackness with destruction — the prodigal’s wastefulness similarly ruined his livelihood, making him brother to a destroyer.

Hosea 2:9-12 has God taking back grain and wine because Israel used them for Baal; the son loses everything after wasting it.

Psalm 107:12 shows God humbling the proud through labor and stumbling — parallel to the prodigal’s suffering after his wasteful pride.

Isaiah 57:17 describes God punishing sinful greed — the prodigal’s squandering and subsequent famine echoes that divine discipline for greed.