Good News Translation
An artist might want to please some ruler, and so he would use his skill to make the likeness better looking than the actual person.

New Revised Standard Version
For he, perhaps wishing to please his ruler, skillfully forced the likeness to take more beautiful form,

New American Bible
For he, perhaps in his determination to please the ruler, labored over the likeness to the best of his skill;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he being willing to please him that employed him, laboured with all his art to make the resemblance in the best manner.

For he being willing to please him that employed him, laboured with all his art to make the resemblance in the best manner.

Wisdom 14:17
And those whom men could not honour in presence, because they dwelt far off, they brought their resemblance from afar, and made an express image of the king, whom they had a mind to honour: that by this their diligence, they might honour as present, him that was absent.

Wisdom 14:18
And to the worshipping of these, the singular diligence also of the artificer helped to set forward the ignorant.

Wisdom 14:20
And the multitude of men, carried away by the beauty of the work, took him now for a god, that little before was but honoured as a man.

Wisdom 14:21
And this was the occasion of deceiving human life: for men serving either their affection, or their kings, gave the incommunicable name to stones and wood.