You covered the earth with an ocean as though it were a robe. Water stood above the mountains
The water rose very high above the earth. It covered all the high mountains everywhere under the sky.
It rose 23 feet above the mountaintops.
They are deliberately ignoring one fact: Because of God’s word, heaven and earth existed a long time ago. The earth ⌞appeared⌟ out of water and was kept alive by water.