Good News Translation
In the same way, a man getting ready to sail on the raging sea will call for help from a piece of wood that is not as strong as the ship he is about to board.

New Revised Standard Version
Again, one preparing to sail and about to voyage over raging waves calls upon a piece of wood more fragile than the ship that carries him.

Contemporary English Version
Sailors preparing to travel across dangerous waters will pray for safety to a flimsy piece of wood, less sturdy than their ship.

New American Bible
Again, one preparing for a voyage and about to traverse the wild waves cries out to wood more unsound than the boat that bears him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Again, another designing to sail, and beginning to make his voyage through the raging waves, calleth upon a piece of wood more frail than the wood that carrieth him.

Again, another designing to sail, and beginning to make his voyage through the raging waves, calleth upon a piece of wood more frail than the wood that carrieth him.

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:

Wisdom 13:19
And for a good journey he petitioneth him that cannot walk: and for getting, and for working, and for the event of all things he asketh him that is unable to do any thing.

Wisdom 14:2
For this the desire of gain devised, and the workman built it by his skill.

Wisdom 14:3
But thy providence, O Father, governeth it: for thou hast made a way even in the sea, and a most sure path among the waves,