Neville Goddard on Job 1:13-22 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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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.

20Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

21And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

22In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

Job 1:13-22

Biblical Context

Job faces a rapid sequence of losses: his wealth, servants, and children are taken from him. He answers with worship, declaring the Lord gives and takes away, and he does not sin against God.

Neville's Inner Vision

Job’s afflictions are not punishments but inner movements of consciousness. The messengers, the fire, the wind—these are symbolic thoughts pressing on a mind ready to shift its state. The I AM—the true you, awareness itself—remains untouched even as appearances shift; you are the witness, not the world that walks through your door. When Job declares that the LORD gave and the LORD hath taken away, he names a principle: conditions are images in mind, passing through the screen of awareness. Your task is to revise the scene by assuming the end—already supplied, protected, upheld by the I AM. Feel the reality of abundance, gratitude, and completion, and let the belief of lack soften into quiet trust. The worship he offers—falling to the ground and blessing the name of the LORD—is the inner surrender to the sovereignty of your own consciousness. In that surrender, the outer calamities lose their grip because you have shifted your center of gravity from circumstance to state, from sensation to self-aware being.