# Connecting Statement:

Job finishes comparing growing old and dying with water drying up (verse 11).

# so people lie down

Lying down represents dying. Alternate translation: "so people die" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])

# do not rise again

Rising again represents living again. Alternate translation: "do not live again" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])