Neville Goddard on Ecclesiastes 5:10-12 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ecclesiastes 5 in context

Scripture Focus

10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

11When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?

12The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

Ecclesiastes 5:10-12

Biblical Context

The verses warn that love of silver is never satisfied and that more goods do not truly serve the owners; possessions are enjoyed mainly in sight, and the laborer sleeps soundly while the rich are unsettled by abundance.

Neville's Inner Vision

To the awakened mind, this text is not about wealth at all, but the inner state you call 'I am'—the measure by which you weigh every possession. When you believe that abundance makes you safe, you awaken a hunger that never rests; you become the man who cannot sleep because craving has eclipsed peace. In Neville’s practice, you revise the scene: see the mind as the true storehouse, not gold; realize that increase cannot satisfy unless it is recognized as already yours in consciousness. The 'owners' only behold their wealth with their eyes because they have not yet perceived that richness is an inner presence, not a pile to guard. Rest comes not from outer accumulation but from a settled feeling that you are complete here and now. When you imagine yourself free from the perpetual bargaining of scarcity, your sleep returns; you are the laborer who rests because you know your supply is a state of awareness, always available as you turn to the I AM.

Practice This Now

Practice: close your eyes, rest in the I AM, and revise any sense of lack into 'I AM fully supplied.' Then imagine the day’s abundance flowing from within you, and allow the sleep of the laborer to rest in you now.