Good News Translation
So all this became a deadly trap, because people who were grieving, or under royal authority, would take objects of stone or wood, and give them the honor reserved for the One God.

New Revised Standard Version
And this became a hidden trap for humankind, because people, in bondage to misfortune or to royal authority, bestowed on objects of stone or wood the name that ought not to be shared.

Contemporary English Version
As a result, idolatry became a hidden trap for those who were suffering or were under the authority of rulers, and they called these idols gods, although you alone are God.

New American Bible
And this became a snare for the world, that people enslaved to either grief or tyranny conferred the incommunicable Name on stones and wood.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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.

Wisdom 14:19
For he being willing to please him that employed him, laboured with all his art to make the resemblance in the best manner.

Wisdom 14:20
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 14:22
And it was not enough for them to err about the knowledge of God, but whereas they lived in a great war of ignorance, they call so many and so great evils peace.

Wisdom 14:23
For either they sacrifice their own children, or use hidden sacrifices, or keep watches full of madness,