Job reflects that in Sheol (the underworld), the wicked and the weary find rest, imagining an afterlife or death-state where labor ceases and the conflict between justice and suffering resolves through the universal peace of the grave. The reference to the wicked and the weary together suggests that death is the great democratic equalizer, transcending the moral distinctions that trouble the living. This vision of underworld peace becomes more attractive than earthly suffering.

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