Will they go down [to] the bars of Sheol? Or shall we descend together into the dust?"

They grow old in prosperity, as they descend peacefully into the afterlife.

“He breaks open (mine) shafts far away from where people live,
[In places] forgotten by the [human] foot;
They dangle [in the mines] and hang away from men.

The blessing of him that was ready to perish, upon me was wont to descend, and, the heart of the widow, caused I to sing for joy;