Neville Goddard on Job 10:9-11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 10 in context

Scripture Focus

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 10:9-11

Biblical Context

Job 10:9-11 speaks of being formed as clay, poured forth like milk, and clothed in skin and sinews—an image of the body's structure under divine order. These lines express the vulnerability and dependence on divine formation.

Neville's Inner Vision

Job 10:9–11 is an inner map for your consciousness, not a literal history of your body. You are the I AM, the awareness that forges form by its attention. The clay, the milk, the skin and sinews are images of inner states: malleable, evolving, and held together by the imaginative act of God within. If you hear the lines as lament, hear them as instruction: form is always being made by what you assume to be true about yourself. The very act of imagining steadies or unsettles your body and life. When you feel poured out or curdled by circumstance, remember that you can revise the image from the inside. Place your attention on the unchanging I AM, and imagine your vessel already complete—order, integrity, health—so your outer forms follow the inward reality. Your true creation is consciousness, and it operates now, here, as you align with that which is beyond time.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and revise the sense of self as the I AM shaping clay into form. Feel the inner vessel perfected now and rest in the awareness that consciousness creates its own body and life.