Job 12:17-20 Inner Authority

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, this passage is not about political fortunes but the turning of states within. 'He leadeth counsellors away spoiled' and the others describe shifts of consciousness that dismantle the belief in power as something outside you. When the outer voices fail—advice that once seemed sure fades, the speech of the trusty is removed—you are left with your essential I AM. God, the I AM, does not threaten but recasts your alignment: the forms of authority you relied upon are dissolved to reveal the sovereign ruler within. The verse invites you to see that kingdoms are not fixed structures but inner dispositions that rise and fall with awareness. If you cling to outer solutions, you will be spoiled by the changing weather of belief; if you surrender to the inner light, you discover that discernment and understanding are not bestowed by age or office but activated by inner attention. Practice implies that you assume a state where inner guidance governs, and the outer declarations fade into the background as you realize you are the living imagination of God.