Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and [so] hate thee.
Ver. 17. Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house.] This is a honey that thou mayest surfeit on, therefore make thy foot precious, or rare (so the original a hath it) at thy neighbour's house, by too oft frequenting whereof thou mayest become cheap, nay, burdensome. At first thou mayest be Oreach, as the Hebrew proverb hath it, i.e., welcome as a traveller that stays for a day. At length thou wilt be Toveach, a charge, a burden. And lastly, by long tarrying, thou shalt be Boreach, an outcast, hunted out of the house that thou hast so immodestly haunted. It is a very great fault among many, saith one, that when they have found a kind and sweet friend, they care not how they encumber him or abuse his courtesy. But, as we say in our common proverb, it is not good to take too much of a frank horse.
a Hebraei ponunt rarum pro caro, ut 1 Samuel 3:1 .