Proverbs 25:17
Good News Translation
Don't visit your neighbors too often; they may get tired of you and come to hate you.

New Revised Standard Version
Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house, otherwise the neighbor will become weary of you and hate you.

Contemporary English Version
Don't visit friends too often, or they will get tired of it and start hating you.

New American Bible
Let your foot be seldom in your neighbors’ house, lest they have their fill of you—and hate you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Withdraw thy foot from the house of thy neighbour, lest having his fill he hate thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Withdraw thy foot from the house of thy neighbour, lest having his fill he hate thee.

Genesis 19:2,3 And said: I beseech you, my lords, turn in to the house of your servant, and lodge there: wash your feet, and in the morning you shall go on your way. And they said: No, but we will abide in the street. . . .

Judges 19:18-21 He answered him: We came out from Bethlehem Juda, and we are going to our home, which is on the side of mount Ephraim, from whence we went to Bethlehem: and now we go to the house of God, and none will receive us under his roof: . . .

weary

Romans 15:24 When I shall begin to take my journey into Spain, I hope that, as I pass, I shall see you and be brought on my way thither by you: if first, in part, I shall have enjoyed you.

Context
More Proverbs of Solomon
16Thou hast found honey, eat what is sufficient for thee, lest being glutted therewith thou vomit it up. 17Withdraw thy foot from the house of thy neighbour, lest having his fill he hate thee.18A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour, is like a dart and a sword and a sharp arrow.…
Cross References
Proverbs 25:16
Thou hast found honey, eat what is sufficient for thee, lest being glutted therewith thou vomit it up.

Proverbs 25:18
A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour, is like a dart and a sword and a sharp arrow.

Proverbs 25:16
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