Neville Goddard on Job 12:1-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 12 in context

Scripture Focus

1And Job answered and said,

2No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

4I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

5He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

6The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

Job 12:1-6

Biblical Context

Job answers his critics and asserts he too has understanding. He notes that the upright are mocked, while the prosperous schemes of the wicked appear secure.

Neville's Inner Vision

Job's reply is your own inner monologue when you hear the chorus saying wisdom dies with the crowd. See that the 'I' who knows is not their audience; the I AM within you is the sole author of your experience. The apparent prosperity of the robbers, the scorn cast on the just, are just states of consciousness that visit you as you forget who you are. When you accept that God does not labor in some external economy but in the interior, you see that abundance follows from the revision of belief, not from fortune or misfortune. The lamp shines for those ready to walk in ease; yet the lamp's light is your awareness itself now, not a future blessing. Therefore, claim your own wisdom as your birthright, and let the world be revised by the feeling that your inner I AM is prospering, untroubled by appearances. The true 'tabernacles of robbers' are the old scripts you outgrow; into your hand God brings abundantly when you know you are God within.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Assume the I AM is your immediate consciousness here and now. Revise the scene by feeling that wisdom and prosperity are already yours, and let that feeling realign every outward sign.