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Source language

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
sic qui effugatur a Domino et portans mercedes iniquitatis

King James Variants

Other translations
New Catholic Bible   
he gazes and groans, as a eunuch groans when embracing a maiden. [So it is with the one who does right under obligation.]
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
he sees with his eyes and groans as a eunuch groans when embracing a girl.
Good News Translation®   
He looks at his food and sighs, like a castrated man hugging a young woman.
Wycliffe Bible   
and beareth the meeds (or the rewards) of wickedness, [or of shrewdness, (or of depravity)], seeing with eyes, and wailing inwardly, as a gelding embracing a virgin [or a maiden], and sighing.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
he sees with his eyes and groans, like a eunuch who embraces a maiden and groans.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
he sees with his eyes and groans as a eunuch groans when embracing a young woman.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
he sees with his eyes and groans as a eunuch groans when embracing a girl.
Common English Bible © 2011   
looking with the eyes and groaning like a eunuch who embraces a young woman and groans.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
who groans at what his eyes behold.
Revised Standard Version   
he sees with his eyes and groans, like a eunuch who embraces a maiden and groans.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
he sees with his eyes and groans as a eunuch groans when embracing a girl.