Job imagines the peace of those who rebuild ruins and gather gold, suggesting that the relief death provides transcends all human distinctions of labor, wealth, and accomplishment. The ruins and gold represent the human projects of construction and accumulation that occupy the living, all of which are rendered meaningless by the universal fact of death. This vision of death-peace negates all earthly striving as ultimately futile.

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