Génesis 6:5

5. God saw… only evil A fearful picture of human depravity, in its thoroughness and universality . The genealogy of the lust and violence that now raged through the world is powerfully traced in a few pregnant words . First, the foul heart, then the thinking, (process,) then the thought, (product,) the imaged sin, ( יצר ,) then the foul deed . From the corrupt heart swarm the carnal thoughts; in these are bred the sinful imageries and purposes, whence are spawned the abominable crimes which break upon the world. How philosophically is this deluge of universal evil traced by secret channels to the parent fountains in the human heart. Comp. Matthew 15:19.

Continually Hebrews only evil all the day . There is terrible emphasis in the few Hebrew monosyllables here employed, which express the idea of sin in every thought and deed, at every time and place .