“God said” – “They hated the admonisher at the gate, and they despised the speaker of uprightness” (Amos 5:10). He [Noah] would say to them: ‘Worthless people, do you forsake the one whose voice “shatters cedars” (Psalms 29:5), and bow down to a shriveled tree?’ And because they were steeped in robbery, they were obliterated from the world, as it is stated: “God said to Noah: The end of all flesh has come…”
Another interpretation, “the end of all flesh” – it is written: “They cause people to cry out from their great oppression; they shout out from the strong arm of the multitudes” (Job 35:9). “They cause people to cry out from their great oppression” – this refers to the oppressed ones; “they shout out from the strong arm of the multitudes” – this refers to the oppressors. These surpassed those and those surpassed these. These surpassed those – in terms of their monetary wickedness; and those surpassed these – in terms of wickedness of speech,9They spoke words of blasphemy because of their plight. until sentence was passed against them.10Oppressor and oppressed alike. And because they were steeped in robbery, they were obliterated from the world.