Neville Goddard on Job 10:18-22 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 10 in context

Scripture Focus

18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

21Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

Job 10:18-22

Biblical Context

Job laments a birth-to-grave journey shadowed by darkness and longs for relief as his days seem few. The passage invites turning inward, toward a transformative shift in consciousness.

Neville's Inner Vision

Job's lament is the cry of a consciousness awakening to itself. The womb is a state of potential; the grave is merely a mental image of finality. Darkness and light are movements of awareness, not external places. If you think you are the body moving through time, you will feel the heaviness of death. But you are the I AM behind every sentence, the awareness that can revise any scene by a simple assumption. Begin by affirming a new state: 'I am the light that I seek, within this darkness.' See that dawn arises not by changing external conditions, but by shifting inner belief. The so-called days are few only as you identify with the limit; by imagining the limit dissolving, you release the sense of time. The land of darkness becomes a workshop where you practice feeling-it-real the truth of your oneness with the I AM. In this inner act, your birth is acknowledged as the moment you awaken to your own light.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Assume the state 'I AM' is the sole observer here; revise the scene by declaring, 'From this moment I walk in light,' and feel that this consciousness already carries you beyond the darkness.