Sirach 30:20
Good News Translation
He looks at his food and sighs, like a castrated man hugging a young woman.

New Revised Standard Version
he sees with his eyes and groans as a eunuch groans when embracing a girl.

Contemporary English Version
they can only stare at food and groan like a young man unable to have sex who holds a virgin in his arms.

New American Bible
who groans at what his eyes behold.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So is he that is persecuted by the Lord, bearing the reward of his iniquity:

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So is he that is persecuted by the Lord, bearing the reward of his iniquity:

Sirach 30:18
Good things that are hidden in a mouth that is shut, are as messes of meat set about a grave.

Sirach 30:19
What good shall an offering do to an idol? for it can neither eat, nor smell:

Sirach 30:21
He seeth with his eyes, and groaneth, as an eunuch embracing a virgin, and sighing.

Sirach 30:22
Give not up thy soul to sadness, and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel.

Context
Sirach 30
19What good shall an offering do to an idol? for it can neither eat, nor smell: 20So is he that is persecuted by the Lord, bearing the reward of his iniquity: 21He seeth with his eyes, and groaneth, as an eunuch embracing a virgin, and sighing.…
Cross References
Sirach 30:18
Good things that are hidden in a mouth that is shut, are as messes of meat set about a grave.

Sirach 30:19
What good shall an offering do to an idol? for it can neither eat, nor smell:

Sirach 30:21
He seeth with his eyes, and groaneth, as an eunuch embracing a virgin, and sighing.

Sirach 30:22
Give not up thy soul to sadness, and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 30:19
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