Proverbios 18:16

La Biblia Reina-Valera

El presente del hombre le ensancha el camino, Y le lleva delante de los grandes.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
La dádiva del hombre le abre camino y lo lleva ante la presencia de los grandes.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
El don del hombre le ensancha el camino, y le lleva delante de los grandes.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
El don del hombre le ensancha el camino, y le lleva delante de los grandes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 17:8, Proverbs 19:6, Proverbs 21:14, Genesis 32:20, Genesis 33:10, Genesis 43:11, 1 Samuel 25:27

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:27 - took Genesis 24:31 - thou Genesis 32:13 - a present Judges 3:15 - sent a present 1 Samuel 16:20 - an ass laden 1 Samuel 25:18 - took two 1 Samuel 30:26 - to his friends 2 Samuel 16:1 - with a couple 2 Kings 18:31 - Make an agreement with me Proverbs 17:23 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A man's gift maketh room for him,.... Or "enlarges him" y; brings him out of prison, or, or out of straits and difficulties with which he, has, been pressed; or it makes way for him to a judge, and for a favourable hearing of his cause; or it enlarges his acquaintance, and gains him respect among men;

and bringeth him before great men; it opens a way for him into the presence and company of great men, being a fee to their servants; or with it he procures a place to wait on them. It is not necessary to understand it of a gift by way of bribe; but to introduce a person to another, and render him acceptable, and appease anger; as in the cases of Jacob and Abigail, Genesis 32:20.

y ירחיב.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The “gift” (or, bribe), by a bold personification, appears as the powerful “friend at court,” who introduces another, and makes him welcome in high places.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 18:16. A man's gift maketh room for him — It is, and ever has been, a base and degrading practice in Asiatic countries, to bring a gift or present to the great man into whose presence you come. Without this there is no audience, no favour, no justice. This arose from the circumstance that men must not approach the altar of God without an offering. Potentates, wishing to be considered as petty gods, demanded a similar homage: -

Munera, crede mihi, capiunt hominesque deosque;

Placatur donis Jupiter ipse suis.

OVID

"Believe me, gifts prevail much with both gods and men:

even Jupiter himself is pleased with his own offerings."