Proverbios 25:17

17 No frecuente tu pie la casa de tu vecino, no sea que él se hastíe de ti y te aborrezca.

Proverbios 25:17 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 25:17

Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house
Not but that it is commendable to be neighbourly and friendly, or for one neighbour to visit another; but then it should not be very frequent; a man should not be always or often at his neighbour's house. So the words may be rendered, "make thy foot precious" or "rare at thy neighbour's house" ^F13; be seldom there; lest he be weary of thee, and [so] hate thee;
or, "lest he be sated with thee" ^F14; filled with thy company to a loathing of it, as the stomach with eating too much honey, and so his friendship be turned into hatred.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 (rqx) "rarum fac", Montanus, Vatablus, Gejerus, Michaelis, Cocceius; Heb. "praetiosum fac", Piscator.
F14 (Kebvy Np) "ne forte satictur tui", Schultens; so Montanus; "saturatus", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Proverbios 25:17 In-Context

15 Con la mucha paciencia se persuade al príncipe, y la lengua suave quebranta los huesos.

16 ¿Has hallado miel? Come sólo lo que necesites, no sea que te hartes y la vomites.

17 No frecuente tu pie la casa de tu vecino, no sea que él se hastíe de ti y te aborrezca.

18 Como maza y espada y aguda saeta es el hombre que levanta falso testimonio contra su prójimo.

19 Como diente malo y pie que resbala es la confianza en el hombre pérfido en tiempo de angustia.