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Vulgate (Latin)   
quam bonum est correptum manifestare paenitentiam sic enim effugies voluntarium peccatum est tacens qui invenitur sapiens

King James Variants

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.