Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 6:11

11. The Earth also was corrupt before God , and the Earth was filled with violence .

Which is here put for its inhabitants, as [illegible: 1+ letters] King. 10. 24. Ezek. 14. 13.

Or, Before the face of God, q. d. in despight and contempt of God and of his presence and justice. Compare Gen. 10. 9. and 13. 13. q. d. They sinned openly and impudently without shame, boldly and resolutely without any fear of God.

Here put for the place or the inhabited parts of it. So the same word is twice used in a differing sense, in one and the same verse. See the like Matth. 8. 22.

Or, Injustice, Fraud, Rapine, Oppression: For all these this word signifies. Some conceive that these two branches note the universal corruption of mankind in reference to all their duties. 1. Towards God and his Worship which they corrupted by horrible superstition, and by Idolatry, which is called Corruption, Exod. 32. 7. Deut. 32. 5. I[illegible: 1+ letters]d. 2. 19. 2 Chron. 27. 28. 2. Towards men, in the duties of Righteousness.