Genesis 5:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He called his name Noah Which signifies rest; saying No doubt by a spirit of prophecy; This same shall comfort us concerning our toil, &c. That is, the hard labour and manifold troubles to which they were sentenced. This he did, 1st, By the invention of instruments of husbandry, whereby tillage was made more easy: 2d, By removing a part of the curse inflicted on the earth: and especially, 3d, By preserving a remnant of mankind from that deluge which Enoch had foretold, and which he foresaw would come, and by repeopling the empty earth with a new generation of men.