Proverbs 25:17

“Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour’s house, etc.] 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”f686; be seldom there; lest he be weary of thee, and [so] hate thee; or, “lest he be sated with thee”f687; 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.”

“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. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Withdraw - Visit him not too frequently. Proverbs 25:18”

“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 Proverbs 25:18”

“This proverb is of a kindred character to the foregoing. "If thy comrade eats honey," says an Arabic proverb quoted by Hitzig, "do not lick it all up." But the emblem of honey is not continued in this verse: Make rare thy foot in thy neighbour's house, Lest he be satiated with thee, and hate thee. To make one's foot rare or dear from a neighbour's house is equivalent to: to enter it seldom, and not too frequently; הוקר includes in itself the idea of keeping at a distance (Targ. כּלה רגלך; Symmachus, ὑπόστειλον; and another: φίμωσον πόδα σου), and מן has the sense of the Arab. 'an, and is not the comparative, as at Isa 13:12 : regard thy visit dearer than the house of a neighbour…”