Abstract
6:1-4.1 argue that understanding the verse in this way is not unreasonable but that this position needs to be qualified. The primary reference of the line is not the flood story but archaic peoples of the land. Genesis 6 and early Jewish traditions that per tain to this chapter influence Ben Siras description of archaic Canaanite rulers. Ben Sira, in an effort to assert the inevitability of Gods punishment of sin, writes: He did not forgive the ancient giants, who revolted in their might (16:7 NSRV).1 This translation reflects the Greek, which reads:
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