Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
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.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Proverbs 18:16:
Proverbs 18:18
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