There is a natural precedence of to experience life first as Job acknowledged "my days are extinguished" (Job 17:1) and then "the grave is ready for me" (:1). A grave is a human burial place. Beyond that according to Israeli people it could lead to Sheol (the underworld) to provide existence for the afterlife where there was a "'great chasm fixed'" (Lk 16:26) to separate the righteous from the unrighteous. There are "those who go down to the pit" (Isa 38:18) where the word for it is "bor" meaning a pit or cistern. It is also called "the pit of nothingness" (:17). "Shoel from beneath is excited over you to meet you when you come. It arouses you the spirits . . . it raises all the kings" (Isa 14:9). "They will all respond, 'Even you have been made weak . . . you have become like us'" (:10).
"The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any who go down into silence" (Ps 115:17). "Sheol cannot thank you, death cannot praise you" (Isa 38:18). "There is no mention of You in death; in Sheol who will give you thanks?" (Ps 6:5). "They "cannot hope for Your faithfulness" (:18). Therefore "rescue my soul; save me because of Your lovingkindness" (Ps 6:4). "It is you who has kept my soul from the pit" (:17). "For us, we will bless from now to forever" (Ps 115:18). "'Everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds'" (Mt 7:7).