Teks -- Proverbs 25:17 (NET)

25:17 Don’t set foot too frequently in your neighbor’s house, lest he become weary of you and hate you.

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Wesley: Pro 25:17 - Withdraw

Visit him not too frequently.

JFB: Pro 25:16-17

A comparison, as a surfeit of honey produces physical disgust, so your company, however agreeable in moderation, may, if excessive, lead your friend to hate you.

Clarke: Pro 25:17 - Withdraw thy foot

Withdraw thy foot - Another proverb will illustrate this: "Too much familiarity breeds contempt."

TSK: Pro 25:17 - Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour’ s // weary

Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour’ s : or, Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbour’ s, Gen 19:2, Gen 19:3; Jdg 19:18-21

weary : Heb. full, Rom 15:24

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Poole: Pro 25:17 - Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour’ s house

Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour’ s house visit him not too frequently nor unseasonably, lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee, as men are apt to loathe those meats of which they surfeit, as was now observed, Pro 25:16 .

Haydock: Pro 25:17 - Having

Having. Hebrew, "being tired of thee." No man is so perfect, but he will manifest some defect, and become importunate. (Calmet) Nulli te facias nimis sodalem. (Martial)

Gill: Pro 25:17 - Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house // lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee

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" ^m; be seldom there;

lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee; or, "lest he be sated with thee" ⁿ; 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.