6Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.


In Context

3 Yahweh said, |My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; yet will his days be one hundred twenty years.|

4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters. They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

5 Yahweh 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.

6 Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

7 Yahweh said, |I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.|

8 But Noah found favor in Yahweh's eyes.

Genesis 6:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

6:6The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:6It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:6And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:6And Jehovah repented that he had made Man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:6And the LORD repented that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:6and Jehovah repenteth that He hath made man in the earth, and He grieveth Himself — unto His heart.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.