But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah.

I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know.

Then he observes men and says, I have sinned, and perverted what was right; and it has not been equaled to me.

Jehovah looked down from Heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any who understood and sought God.

Jehovah looks down from Heaven; He watches all the sons of mankind.

From His dwelling place He gazes upon all the inhabitants of the earth.

God looked down from Heaven upon the children of mankind to see if any was circumspect, seeking God.

Every one of them has turned back; they have all together become corrupt; not one is doing good, no, not even one.

The eyes of Jehovah are in every place, keeping watch over the evil and the good.

There were giants on the earth in those days. And also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them, these were the mighty men from antiquity, men of renown.

And Jehovah saw that the evil of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all day long.

And Jehovah said to Noah, Come into the ark, you and all your house, for I have seen you as being righteous before Me in this generation.

And all flesh died that moved on the earth: flying creatures and animals and living things and every creeping thing that moves on the earth, and every man.

And God said, This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it to remember the perpetual covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

Will you keep to the old way which wicked men have trod,

They said to the Mighty God, Depart from us! What can the Almighty do to them?

and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.

by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison,

who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing the flood on the world of the ungodly;