Good News Translation
But among that scrap wood he may take one piece that isn't good for anything--maybe it's crooked and full of knots--and carefully carve it in his leisure time, using spare moments to shape it into the crude image of a person,

New Revised Standard Version
But a cast-off piece from among them, useful for nothing, a stick crooked and full of knots, he takes and carves with care in his leisure, and shapes it with skill gained in idleness; he forms it in the likeness of a human being,

Contemporary English Version
while a crooked and knotty piece may be carefully carved into the shape of a human

New American Bible
Then the good-for-nothing refuse from these remnants, crooked wood grown full of knots, he takes and carves to occupy his spare time. This wood he models with mindless skill, and patterns it on the image of a human being

Douay-Rheims Bible
And taking what was left thereof, which is good for nothing, being a crooked piece of wood, and full of knots, carveth it diligently when he hath nothing else to do, and by the skill of his art fashioneth it, and maketh it like the image of a man:

And taking what was left thereof, which is good for nothing, being a crooked piece of wood, and full of knots, carveth it diligently when he hath nothing else to do, and by the skill of his art fashioneth it, and maketh it like the image of a man:

Wisdom 13:11
Or if an artist, a carpenter, hath cut down a tree proper for his use in the wood, and skilfully taken off all the bark thereof, and with his art, diligently formeth a vessel profitable for the common uses of life,

Wisdom 13:12
And useth the chips of his work to dress his meat:

Wisdom 13:14
Or the resemblance of some beast, laying it over with vermilion, and painting it red, and covering every spot that is in it:

Wisdom 13:15
And maketh a convenient dwelling place for it, and setting it in a wall, and fastening it with iron,