Good News Translation
He is careful to keep it from falling, because he knows it is only an idol and needs help; it cannot help itself.

New Revised Standard Version
He takes thought for it, so that it may not fall, because he knows that it cannot help itself, for it is only an image and has need of help.

Contemporary English Version
to keep it from falling, because the one who made it realizes that it is merely a helpless idol.

New American Bible
Thus he provides for it lest it fall down, knowing that it cannot help itself; for, truly, it is an image and needs help.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Providing for it, lest it should fall, knowing that it is unable to help itself: for it is an image, and hath need of help.

Providing for it, lest it should fall, knowing that it is unable to help itself: for it is an image, and hath need of help.

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,

Wisdom 13:17
And then maketh prayer to it, enquiring concerning his substance, and his children, or his marriage. And he is not ashamed to speak to that which hath no life:

Wisdom 13:18
And for health he maketh supplication to the weak, and for life prayeth to that which is dead, and for help calleth upon that which is unprofitable: