Neville Goddard on Ecclesiastes 4:4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ecclesiastes 4 in context

Scripture Focus

4Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Biblical Context

The verse says that toil and right effort can provoke envy from a neighbor, and that such envy is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Neville's Inner Vision

Truth, dear reader, envy is not a neighbor looking at you; it is a state of consciousness within you that believes you lack what you see elsewhere. When I say, 'this man is envied by his neighbour,' I am pointing to the inner movement that interprets another's success as removal from your own supply. The 'travail' and 'right work' are not outer trophies but inner choices by which you hold your reality. If you insist that your value depends on the approval of others, you are living in vanity and vexation of spirit, because you are dividing the I AM that fills all. The remedy is to turn your attention to the being you are now: the I AM that imagines, creates, and completes all your labor. Rather than strive for the neighbour's gaze, dwell in the awareness that you are already the cause and the effect of every scene. When you shift to that inner state, envy recedes, the right work becomes a joyous expression, and life reveals its abundance as your natural condition.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Close your eyes, revise by assuming the state: 'I am the I AM, already possessing the fruits of my labor.' Feel that inner reality now, and let envy dissolve as you rest in your inner abundance.