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Isaiah 44:13

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 13 The wood-carver stretches the measuring line, tracing out the pattern with red chalk.
  
  He works it with a wood scraper and traces it with a compass.
  
  He patterns it after a man,+
  With the beauty of a man,
  To sit in a house.*+

Isaiah 44:13

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
- 13 As for the wood carver, he has stretched out the measuring line; he traces it out with red chalk; he works it up with a wood scraper; and with a compass he keeps tracing it out, and gradually he makes it like the representation of a man,*+ like the beauty of mankind,* to sit in a house.+

Isaiah 44:13

The Bible in Living English
- 13 * A carpenter stretches a line, outlines his job with a pencil, does it with chisels and contours it with compasses, and has made it in the figure of a man, in the elegance of human form, to sit still in a house.

Isaiah 44:13

American Standard Version
- 13 The carpenter stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with a pencil; he shapeth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compasses, and shapeth it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.

Isaiah 44:13

The Emphasized Bible
- 13 As for the carpenter—He hath stretched out a line, hath drawn it with a pencil, Hath made it with carving tools, With compasses hath rounded it,—And so hath made it after the figure of a great man, After the beauty of a son of earth, that it may remain in a house!

Isaiah 44:13

King James Version
- 13 The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.