Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 19:6

6 Many will entreat the favour of the prince , and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.

Or, as others, of the liberal or bountiful man: which comes to the same thing: for Kings were antiently called Benefactors, Luk. 22. 25.

Not sincerely, as daily experience shews, but in shew or profession, or in the outward expressions of it, whereby they may oblige him.

Marginal references: Heb. face.; Heb. a man of gifts.