Other versions are either caricatures, or exaggerations, or misunderstandings, or shortsighted and surface readings.
In both of the versions Noah in a very true sense represents the beginning of a new creation: he is the traditional father of a better race.
He has a placid, pleasant way of writing, and, indeed, his verses cannot do any harm, though he really should not publish such attempts at metrical versions of the Psalms as the following:
These fundamental variations and the presence of duplicate versions of the same incidents point, some writers think, to two originally distinct accounts of the flood which have been closely woven together by the final editor of the book of Genesis.