Genesis

A man’s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.

Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the Lord commanded them: the Lord also accepted Job.

A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.

And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.