Job reflects that in death, the small and the great are alike, all finding the equality that the living world denies them through the universal fact of mortality. The leveling of all humans before death becomes in the context of suffering a source of consolation, suggesting that the extremities and inequalities of life are temporary while the peace of the grave is universal. This egalitarian vision of death inverts the normal hierarchy that privileges the living.

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