Good News Translation
The ambitious artists who made these likenesses caused this worship to spread, even among people who did not know the king.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the ambition of the artisan impelled even those who did not know the king to intensify their worship.

Contemporary English Version
In fact, some people who did not know what their rulers looked like were led to worship them, because of the skill and the tireless efforts of those who made beautiful idols to please their rulers.

New American Bible
And to promote this observance among those to whom it was strange, the artisan’s ambition provided a stimulus.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And to the worshipping of these, the singular diligence also of the artificer helped to set forward the ignorant.

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

Wisdom 14:16
Then, in process of time, wicked custom prevailing, this error was kept as a law, and statues were worshipped by the commandment of tyrants.

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 14:19
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.