Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.
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Gill's Exposition
Many will entreat the favour of the prince,.... Or of the liberal and bountiful man; as kings and princes generally are, Luk 22:25; such have many to wait upon them, and are humble petitioners to…
Barnes' Notes
Intreat the favor ... - literally, “stroke the face” of the man of princely nature, who gives munificently.
These two verses are a comment upon Pro 19:4, and show, 1. How those that are rich and great are courted and caressed, and have suitors and servants in abundance. The prince that has power in his…
Cambridge Bible
prince It is better to preserve the parallelism, and to render the Heb. word in its primary sense of princely disposition, the liberal man, R.V. text, than with A.V. and R.V. marg., of princely rank.…
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