It must be that God is consciously alluding to contemporary beliefs, in order to show that He is the ultimate source of power; He is the one who controls the 'monster' of the sea, so that it does His will. God therefore corrected the fundamental error in these people's beliefs, which was that there were forces at work in the world which were not subject to God's control, and were therefore evil by implication.
Inabidi iwe kwamba Mungu alikuwa anafahamu kutaja imani za wakati ule ule, ili kuonyesha kwamba Yeye ni muasisi wa nguvu; ndiye pekee anayemtawala'mnyama mkubwa’ wa bahari, kwa matokeo anafanya mapenzi yake. Kwa sababu hii Mungu alisahihisha kosa kubwa la imani za watu hawa, ambazo zilikuwa kwamba zilikuwepo nguvu zingine zikifanya kazi ulimwenguni ambazo haziko chini ya mamlaka ya Mungu, na kwa hiyo kwa kuzisema zilikuwa mbaya.