箴言 25:17

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

你的腳要少進鄰舍的家；免得他厭煩你，就憎惡你。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 的 脚 要 少 进 邻 舍 的 家 ， 恐 怕 他 厌 烦 你 ， 恨 恶 你 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ Don't go to your neighbor's house too often; too much of you will make him hate you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's: or, Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbour's, Genesis 19:2, Genesis 19:3, Judges 19:18-21

weary: Heb. full, Romans 15:24

Cross-References

Genesis 15:15
And you, Abram, will die in peace and will be buried at an old age.

Genesis 25:7
Abraham lived to be one hundred seventy-five years old.

Genesis 25:8
He breathed his last breath and died at an old age, after a long and satisfying life.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

m חקר "rarum fac", Montanus, Vatablus, Gejerus, Michaelis, Cocceius; Heb. "praetiosum fac", Piscator. n פן ישבעך "ne forte satictur tui", Schultens; so Montanus; "saturatus", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let thy foot be seldom in the house of thy friend, etc. Though thy visits were sweet as honey, he may soon learn to loathe them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 25:17. Withdraw thy foot — Another proverb will illustrate this: "Too much familiarity breeds contempt."