¹² And God seeth the earth, and lo, it hath been corrupted, for all flesh hath corrupted its way on the earth.

² God from the heavens looked on the sons of men, To see if there be an understanding one, `One' seeking God.

³ Every one went back, together they became filthy, There is none doing good -- not even one.

²⁷ He looketh on men, and saith, `I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me.

¹⁵ The path of the age dost thou observe, That men of iniquity have trodden?

¹⁶ Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation.

¹⁷ Those saying to God, `Turn aside from us,' And what doth the Mighty One to them?

⁵ and the old world did not spare, but the eighth person, Noah, of righteousness a preacher, did keep, a flood on the world of the impious having brought,

¹⁹ in which also to the spirits in prison having gone he did preach,

²⁰ who sometime disbelieved, when once the long-suffering of God did wait, in days of Noah -- an ark being preparing -- in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water;

⁶ and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.'

³ In every place are the eyes of Jehovah, Watching the evil and the good.

¹³ From the heavens hath Jehovah looked, He hath seen all the sons of men.

¹⁴ From the fixed place of His dwelling, He looked unto all inhabitants of the earth;

¹ To the Overseer. -- By David. A fool hath said in his heart, `God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.

² Jehovah from the heavens Hath looked on the sons of men, To see if there is a wise one -- seeking God.

³ The whole have turned aside, Together they have been filthy: There is not a doer of good, not even one.

²¹ I go down now, and see whether according to its cry which is coming unto Me they have done completely -- and if not -- I know;'

¹⁶ and the bow hath been in the cloud, and I have seen it -- to remember the covenant age-during between God and every living creature among all flesh which `is' on the earth.'

¹⁷ And God saith unto Noah, `This `is' a token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that `is' upon the earth.'

¹² And God saith, `This is a token of the covenant which I am giving between Me and you, and every living creature that `is' with you, to generations age-during;

²¹ and expire doth all flesh that is moving on the earth, among fowl, and among cattle, and among beasts, and among all the teeming things which are teeming on the earth, and all mankind;

¹ And Jehovah saith to Noah, `Come in, thou and all thy house, unto the ark, for thee I have seen righteous before Me in this generation;

⁸ And Noah found grace in the eyes of Jehovah.

⁴ The fallen ones were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when sons of God come in unto daughters of men, and they have borne to them -- they `are' the heroes, who, from of old, `are' the men of name.

⁵ And Jehovah seeth that abundant `is' the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;