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 19:4.