Proverbs 25:17

17 subtrahe pedem tuum de domo proximi tui nequando satiatus oderit te

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.


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 patientia lenietur princeps et lingua mollis confringet duritiam
16 mel invenisti comede quod sufficit tibi ne forte saturatus evomas illud
17 subtrahe pedem tuum de domo proximi tui nequando satiatus oderit te
18 iaculum et gladius et sagitta acuta homo qui loquitur contra proximum suum testimonium falsum
19 dens putridus et pes lapsus qui sperat super infideli in die angustiae
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