Neville Goddard on Job 1:13-19 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 1 in context

Scripture Focus

13And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

14And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

15And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

16While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

17While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

18While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:

19And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

Job 1:13-19

Biblical Context

Job's family enjoys a feast. One by one, messengers arrive with reports of loss and death.

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice that in this chapter the outer calamities are the visible costume of an inner drama. The day when Job’s possessions and kin appear secure is the mind’s stillness before belief in lack is stirred. The messengers—the first about plowed oxen, then the fire from heaven, then the raiding Chaldeans—are successive thoughts that arise to challenge your sense of safety. In Neville’s psychology, they are not ‘out there’ events but inner movements of consciousness, shifting your identification from I AM’s unchanging presence to the transient stories of wealth, kinship, and status. Yet the I AM—the witness within—remains unchanged, watching the theater without becoming the role. The Test is not punishment but a pointer: you can revise the field of awareness, you can choose to remain the conscious observer rather than the seen, and you can reassign security to the inner life that never leaves you. When you claim that you are the I AM, you discover that what appeared to be loss is simply a rearrangement of your inner beliefs, and the storm becomes fuel for a deeper trust in your timeless nature.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: In a quiet moment, assume the state of constancy—'I AM' unchanging and whole. Revise the scene by imagining the losses transformed into inner security, and feel it real in your chest as present fact.