The Creator continued his questioning: “Who barricaded the sea with doors, which began to go forth as when it burst out from the womb; when I put the cloud as its garment and thick gloom as its swaddling band, and I proceeded to break up my regulation upon it and to set a bar and doors, and I went on to say, ‘ This far you may come, and no farther; and here your proud waves are limited ’? ” ​ — Job 38: 8 - 11.
यहाँ जो समुद्र को रोकने की बात की गई है, उसमें महाद्वीप, महासागर और ज्वार - भाटा भी शामिल हैं ।