Luke 15:19

No more worthy. He had no worthiness of his own to offer as a reason for being given a job on the family estate. He could not pretend that there was, for it was altogether too obvious that he had no claim of any kind on his father.

As one of thy hired servants. He would apply for a job as a favor, not as a right. He had no rights. Formerly he had not been willing to submit to paternal discipline as a son; now he was ready to submit to the discipline that his father, as master of the estate, administered to his servants. He had, for all practical purposes, disowned his father, and in strict justice his father might be expected to disown him as a son. But perhaps he would accept him as a servant.