Neville Goddard on Ecclesiastes 8:16-17 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ecclesiastes 8 in context

Scripture Focus

16When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

17Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

Ecclesiastes 8:16-17

Biblical Context

The verses say a person seeks wisdom and to know the earth's workings, but the work of God cannot be fully discovered; even the wise cannot fathom it.

Neville's Inner Vision

The call of Ecclesiastes 8:16-17 is a doorway into a shift of consciousness. What you call 'the work of God under the sun' is not an external mystery to be solved by intellect, but the inner movements of your own awareness that you have yet to align with. When you press outward to understand, you are stepping into the habit of analyzing rather than recognizing the I AM that perceives. Remember: you are that I AM, and every event in life is a movement within your own state of consciousness. The true wisdom is not a ledger of facts but a settled alignment with divine order. You cannot force the unknowable to yield through effort; you succeed by revising your inner image to reflect wholeness and by feeling that completion as real. In this light, Providence is your inner arrangement, and the entire cosmos answers as you consent to that order. Your task is to rest in the inward knowing that the work is already done within you.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and affirm: 'I am the I AM; the complete order of God is now unfolding within me.' Then revise your inner image to reflect that the world operates under divine law, and feel that truth as real.