Earlier (6:9) Noach was described as צדיק תמים. Hirsch explained there that תמים means living morally and צדיק means living honestly. And yet here Noach is described with just the term צדיק .
That is because our duty is to be just, צדיקים. Not only the mitzvos between man and his fellow man are mitzvos of justice, but also the mitzvos of morality. We do not own our spirit, life and power. Everything we “have” is entrusted to us by God and we must use them justly and honestly.
Someone who casts off the yoke of morality, squandering and misusing that which was given to him by God, is a scoundrel before God, like a thief who robs human beings.
Beraishis 7:1
pages 187-188
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