Neville Goddard on Job 10:8-11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 10 in context

Scripture Focus

8Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

10Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

11Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

Job 10:8-11

Biblical Context

Job 10:8-11 speaks of God forming the body and clothing the self with skin and sinews, while hinting at destruction and dust. It presents life as a form in progress, seen from the vantage of inner awareness.

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of Job's words as a map of consciousness, not a history of a man. Thine hands have made me is the recognition that I AM the hands by which form appears. The clay, the milk, the skin and sinews are symbols of the inner conditions through which I experience life. When the text asks, will thou destroy me, it is the old belief that life can be dissolved by circumstance; but the interior voice answers: you are the I AM who commands the scene, and the form is only a temporary garment. The pouring out and curdling imagery describes how conditions seem to alter my appearance, yet the living I AM remains untouched, watching through the senses. To dwell in this truth is to revise the stage: I do not serve the appearance; I revise the appearance by assuming a new state. Clothed with skin and flesh, fenced by bones and sinews, I am the image of divine order already fulfilled. Return to the inner assumption that I AM now the architect of this life, not its victim, and the outer line of fortune will rearrange to reflect that inner state.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Assume the state, 'I AM the I AM now, whole and unformed by fear.' Then feel your body from the inside as already complete, letting the sense of wholeness soften any sense of destruction.