³ Then the Lord said, “My Spirit^(A) will not contend with^[a] humans forever,^(B) for they are mortal^[b];^(C) their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

⁵ The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth,^(A) and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.^(B)

¹¹ Now the earth was corrupt^(A) in God’s sight and was full of violence.^(B)

¹² God saw how corrupt^(A) the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.^(B)