[Ps. 88:6] "Free among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave." Rabbi Helbo said, "Those who lie in the grave are like the slain of the generation of the Flood." Rabbi Aha said, "The gentiles call the oceans by my name, and I punish them by my name, as it says: (Amos 5:8) 'He who calls to the waters of the sea and pours them out on the face of the earth - the Lord is his name.'" Rabbi Abbahu expounded: "The ocean is higher than the whole world." Rabbi Elazar, son of Rabbi Menachem, said to him: "But isn't it called 'poured out on the face of the earth?'"