Job 7:9

goes down to Sheol: This is the first plain mention of Sheol in Job.

It is described as:

1. A place of rest from the pressures and distinctions of earth (3:13–19).

2. "Darkness" (10:21–22; 17:13).

3. Deep in the earth (11:8).

4. Covered in dust (17:16).

5. The fate of all living beings from which no one can return (30:23; 10:21; see Genesis 37:25; 2 Samuel 12:12).