Genesis 6:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And God saw. — Really, And Jehovah saw.

Imagination. — More exactly, form, shape. Thus every idea or embodied thought, which presented itself to the mind through the working of the heart — that is, the whole inner nature of man — “was only evil continually” — Heb., all the day, from morning to night, without reproof of conscience or fear of the Divine justice. A more forcible picture of complete depravity could scarcely be drawn; and this corruption of man’s inner nature is ascribed to the overthrow of moral and social restraints.

Genesis 6:5

5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.