I marked a boundary for the sea and kept it behind bolted gates.

Then God commanded, "Let the water below the sky come together in one place, so that the land will appear"---and it was done.

He gathered all the seas into one place; he shut up the ocean depths in storerooms.

You set a boundary they can never pass, to keep them from covering the earth again.

and ordered the waters of the sea to rise no further than he said. I was there when he laid the earth's foundations.

I am the LORD; why don't you fear me? Why don't you tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary of the sea, a permanent boundary that it cannot cross. The sea may toss, but it cannot go beyond it; the waves may roar, but they cannot break through.