Other translations
New Catholic Bible
Like a eunuch lusting to ravage a maiden is the person who does what is right out of obligation.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Like a eunuch lusting to violate a girl is the person who does right under compulsion.
Good News Translation®
Using force to get a point across is like a castrated man trying to rape a young woman.
Wycliffe Bible
It is full good, that a man that is reproved, show openly penance; for so thou shalt escape willful sin. [How good (it) is, the chastised to show penance; so forsooth thou shalt flee away (from) willful sin.]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Like a eunuch’s desire to violate a maiden is a man who executes judgments by violence.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Like a eunuch lusting to violate a young woman is the person who makes decisions under compulsion.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Like a eunuch lusting to violate a girl is the person who does right under compulsion.
Common English Bible © 2011
Like eunuchs desiring to violate a girl, so are those who make decisions by force.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Like a eunuch lusting to violate a young woman is the one who does right under compulsion.
Revised Standard Version
Like a eunuch’s desire to violate a maiden is a man who executes judgments by violence.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Like a eunuch lusting to violate a girl is the person who does right under compulsion.