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18 Before a stranger do nothing that should be kept secret,
    for you do not know what it will produce later on.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 8:18 To keep a secret, or a confidence, is a major concern of Ben Sira; cf. 1:30; 22:22; 27:16–21; 37:10; 42:1.