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Job changes his talk from dying to life after death.
There the wicked cease from trouble; there the weary are at rest
Job uses parallelism to emphasize that the lowly will find rest from those causing them hardship. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)
There the wicked cease from trouble
Job is talking about the place where people go after they stop living. AT: "In that place, evil people stop causing trouble" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit)
the voice of the slave driver
Here "voice" is a metonym for the power that the slave drivers have over the slaves. AT: "They are no longer under the control of the slave drivers" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)
small and great people
This is a figure of speech which means "all people, both poor people and rich people." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-merism)
the servant is free from his master
A servant is no longer obligated to serve his master.