Proverbs 17:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

him that hath it. its owner (the bribed, not the briber).

prospereth. it sparkles. And he loves to look at it and keep it. Compare "gift", Proverbs 17:23.

Proverbs 17:8

8 A gift is as a preciousd stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.