Proverbs 19:6

Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts. MANY WILL ENTREAT THE FAVOUR (HEBREW, THE FACE, DANIEL 9:13 , MARGIN) OF THE PRINCE (or, the liberal): and every man (is) a friend to him that giveth gifts-or, as the Hebrew maqqeph (hyphen) requires, rather, 'Every friend (is) to a man of gifts:' a man of gifts has all friends. 'Entreat the face' is an idiom for to move the countenance of another to commiseration [from chaalah (H2470), to be sick]: to soften the countenance, and so to move him by earnest and reverent prayers that he will be ashamed to withhold the request. Men's selfishness is herein stigmatized as in Proverbs...

INTREAT THE FAVOR ... - literally, “stroke the face” of the man of princely nature, who gives munificently....

EXPOSITION PROVERBS 19:1 BETTER IS THE POOR THAT WALKTH IN HIS INTEGRITY. The word for "poor" is, here and in Proverbs 19:7, Proverbs 19:22, _rash, _which signifies "poor" in opposition to "rich." In the present reading of the second clause, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool, there seems to be a failure in antithesis, unless we can understand the fool as a rich fool. This, the repetition of the maxim in Proverbs 28:6 ("Than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich"), would lead one to admit. The Vulgate accordingly has, Quam dives torquem

MANY WILL ENTREAT THE FAVOUR OF THE PRINCE,.... Or of the liberal and bountiful man; as kings and princes generally are, Luke 22:25; such have many to wait upon them, and are humble petitioners to them. Aben Ezra and Gersom interpret the many of great and honourable men, who are courtiers to kings and princes; who wait upon them, ask favours of them, and seek for places under them. The Targum is, "there are many that minister before a prince;'' he has many servants, and some of them nobles; AND EVERY MAN [IS] A FRIEND TO HIM THAT GIVETH GIFTS; or "to a man of gift" k: who has it in his power to give, and has a heart to it; who is both a rich man and a liberal man; who is both able and willing to communicate to the necessities of others: such a man not only has the poor his friends, but others will speak well of him, and will make applica

CHAPTER 19:1-19 FURTHER PROVERBS ON PERSONAL INSTRUCTION One may be poor, but walking in integrity, he is far ahead of him who is perverse in his lips and is a fool. Then we find proverbs about fretting against the Lord; warning against false witness and speaking lies and other matters. We call special attention to Proverbs 19:12 . _ The King's wrath is as the roaring of a lion._ But his favour is as dew upon the grass. It may be applied to Him who is The Lamb of God and also the Lion of the tribe of Judah. Some day He will roar in His displeasure and manifest the wrath, so well deserved by the world. But even then His grace will be revealed, for in wrath He will remember mercy, the mercy promised to Israel. “I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth its roots as Lebanon”...

PROVERBS 19. A shrewd turn of sarcasm in Proverbs 19:3 suggests the attitude of practical wisdom towards that questioning of the moral government of the world which we find in Job. PROVERBS 19:1. FOOL: read rich, as in Proverbs 28:6. Proverbs 19:2 a. Both RV and RVm are unsound grammatically. The lit. rendering shows that the clause is defective, Also without knowledge of the soul. is not good. Some verb expressing action is required. Proverbs 19:2 b. sinneth: read _mg._ The idea is more haste less speed.

HIM THAT GIVETH GIFTS. Hebrew. man of gifts. a generous man....

_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. The same word is rendered _liberal_, Isaiah 32:5; Isaiah 32:8. Comp. Keble's version of it in Psalms 51:12 (Sixth Sun. after Trinity): "The _princely_heart of innocence....

CHAPTER 19 TEXT Proverbs 19:1-10 1. Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity Than he that is perverse in his lips and is a fool. 2. Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good; And he that hasteth with his feet sinneth. 3. The foolishness of man subverteth his way; And his heart fretteth against Jehovah. 4. Wealth addeth many friends; But the poor is separated from his friend. 5. A false witness shall not be unpunished; And he that uttereth lies shall not escape. 6. Many will entreat the favor of the liberal man; And every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts. 7. All the brethren of the poor do hate him: How much more do his friends go far from him! 8. He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: He that keepeth under

1. FOOL] read, 'rich' (Proverbs 28:6)....