Neville Goddard on Job 14:13-22 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 14 in context

Scripture Focus

13O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

14If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

15Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.

16For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

17My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.

18And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.

19The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.

20Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

21His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

22But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

Job 14:13-22

Biblical Context

Job longs to be hidden in the grave until wrath passes and hopes for a future change. He contemplates death, divine scrutiny, and the fragility of human hope, seeking renewal beyond present suffering.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider Job’s ache as your own inner weather. The grave speaks not of a distant tomb but of a closed state of consciousness you slip into when fear blocks the light of awareness. The question If a man die, shall he live again is a pivot, not a query about place but about the power you grant to life within you. The change he longs for is a change of assumption, a shift in how you measure time, fate, and what you call circumstance. When he writes Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee, he reveals the law: the I AM within speaks and you respond by aligning with the work of God’s hands. The lines about counting steps, sealing transgressions, and mountains falling are the ego’s way of insisting on a fixed order. Yet you can revise them by rising in consciousness to the truth that life is not an event but a state of awakening. Your present pain and loss are temporary scenes in a larger drama of renewal. The moment you accept your true identity as I AM, you begin a new chapter where the old structures wear away and you walk in a restored life that outlasts upheaval.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes and assume the feeling of renewal now by declaring I AM the life and resurrection here and now. Let that certainty revise time and bring your change as fully as if it had already happened.