Proverbs 25:17

17 Don't spend too much time in your neighbor's house. Otherwise, they'll get fed up with you and hate you.

Proverbs 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.

Proverbs 25:17 In-Context

15 A commander can be persuaded with patience, and a tender tongue can break a bone.

16 If you find honey, eat just the right amount; otherwise, you'll get full and vomit it up.

17 Don't spend too much time in your neighbor's house. Otherwise, they'll get fed up with you and hate you.

18 People who testify falsely against their neighbors are like a club, sword, and sharpened arrow.

19 Trusting a treacherous person at a difficult time is like having a bad tooth or a wobbly foot.