Wisdom 13:14
Good News Translation
or maybe of some worthless animal. He paints it all over with red, covering up every flaw in the work.

New Revised Standard Version
or makes it like some worthless animal, giving it a coat of red paint and coloring its surface red and covering every blemish in it with paint;

Contemporary English Version
or of some useless animal, before being painted red to cover all its flaws.

New American Bible
or makes it resemble some worthless beast. When he has daubed it with red and crimsoned its surface with red stain, and daubed over every blemish in it,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Or the resemblance of some beast, laying it over with vermilion, and painting it red, and covering every spot that is in it:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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

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

Wisdom 13:16
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.

Context
Wisdom 13
13And 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: 14Or the resemblance of some beast, laying it over with vermilion, and painting it red, and covering every spot that is in it: 15And maketh a convenient dwelling place for it, and setting it in a wall, and fastening it with iron,…
Cross References
Wisdom 13:12
And useth the chips of his work to dress his meat:

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

Wisdom 13:16
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.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 13:13
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