Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man [is] a friend to him that giveth gifts.
Ver. 6. Many will entreat the favour of the prince.] Yea, lie at his feet, and lick up his spittle, not being loyal in love for conscience, but submissive in show for commodity. Every man will be thrusting in where anything is to be gotten. The poets make Litae, or Petitions, to be the daughters of Jupiter, and ever about him; to signify, saith the mythologist, that princes and great ones are seldom without suppliants and suitors. a
And every man is a friend, &c.] See Trapp on " Pro 17:8 "
a ου γαρ ατιμοι Iκεσιου Zηνος κουραι λιται. - Orph. in Arg.