Genesis 6:7

7. I will destroy Literally, I will wipe out man . When God destroys his own creature, the creature must have made itself fearfully guilty and corrupt .

Both man, and beast Heb, from man unto beast; that is, beginning at man, the destruction shall descend to beasts, man’s subjects and servants . It is one of the deep mysteries of this life that the lower orders of animate beings rejoice and suffer in sympathy with man, and are, therefore, involved in the calamities which result from human sin. But they are also a part of the whole creation, ( πασα η κτισις ,) which groans and travails together with sinning and suffering man, waiting “for the manifestation of the sons of God . ” Romans 8:19-21. What and how much the apostle means by these wondrous words we cannot conceive, but it is something ineffably glorious .