What is metaphor of time in death be not proud

The extended metaphor continues. He calls the time between the speaker's death and the Day of Judgment a "short sleep." In human terms, this may not seem that short (we can assume the speaker is "asleep" for hundreds of years already), but, compared to Eternity, pretty much anything is short.

d. pushing his plate away from the edge of the table idk what the other guy was trying to

b would have to be the answer