Rabbi Yudan began in the name of Rabbi Aivu: “In the transgression of the lips there is an evil snare, but the righteous one emerges from trouble” (Proverbs 12:13) – because of the rebellion that the generation of the Flood5They rebelled against God with their blasphemous statements – the transgression of the lips (see Tanḥuma Noaḥ 14). rebelled against the Holy One blessed be He, catastrophe befell them. “But the righteous one emerges from trouble” – this refers to Noah, as it is stated: “Go out of the ark.”