Proverbs 25:17
15 Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.
16 If you find honey, eat just what you need, lest you have too much and vomit it up.
Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house, lest he grow weary and hate you.
18 Like a club or sword or sharp arrow is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.
19 Like a broken tooth or a foot out of joint is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house, lest he grow weary and hate you.
- KJV
- Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour’s house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.
- WEB
- Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house, lest he be weary of you, and hate you.
- ASV
- Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbor`s house, Lest he be weary of thee, and hate thee.
- DARBY
- Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee and hate thee.
- BLB
- Make rare your foot from the house of your neighbor, lest he have his fill of you and hate you.
- ÅB
- Sett sjelden din fot i din venns hus, for at han ikke skal bli lei av deg og hate deg!
- OTB
- La din fot sjelden være i din nabos hus, for at han ikke skal bli trett av deg og hate deg.
- B1930
- Sett sjelden din fot i din venns hus, forat han ikke skal bli lei av dig og hate dig!