The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Ver. 11. The earth also was corrupt before God.] Or, rotten, putrid, and stank again. Sin is an offence to all God's senses; yea, to his very soul, as he complains in Isaiah 1:1,16. Oh that it were so to ours! then would we not hide it under our tongues, as a child doth sugar, and harbour it in our hearts; yea, let it eat of our meat, and drink of our cup, and lie in our bosoms, as the poor man's lamb did in Nathan's parable. 2Sa 12:3 Lust was but a stranger to David, as the prophet there intimates 2Sa 12:4 At other times, and when himself, "I hate vain thoughts," saith he, Psa 119:113 yea, "every false way," Psa 119:104 as the vomit of a dog, as the devil's excrements, as the putrefaction of a dead soul, dead in trespasses; dead and rotten, as here, stinking (τεταρταιος), worse before God, than Lazarus was or could be, after he had lain four days in the grave. Joh 11:39