Neville Goddard on Job 15:17-35 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 15 in context

Scripture Focus

17I will shew thee, hear me; and that which I have seen I will declare;

18Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

19Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.

20The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

21A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

22He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

23He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

24Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

25For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

26He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

27Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

28And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

31Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

32It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

33He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

34For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

Job 15:17-35

Biblical Context

The passage speaks of the wicked who endure pain and darkness. It says their wealth will not endure and their life aligns with a broader cosmic order.

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through Neville Goddard’s lens, the 'wicked' in Job is the segment of your own consciousness that clings to external security and threatens the integrity of the I AM. The earth given to the wise is your present field of awareness; the oppressor is the belief in a separate self that must conquer others. The dreadful sounds and the day of darkness are the inner alarms that arise when you identify with lack rather than the divine life within. Darkness is not a place you travel to; it is a vibration you choose when you forget that the I AM is ever-present. When you revise by returning your attention to the truth that you are the I AM, and that prosperity is a function of consciousness, the voice of doom softens and the mind’s battles lose their grip. The remedy is a simple act of reviving a higher assumption: that you are already and always the I AM, and that vanity cannot rule your life. In that inner restoration, the outer scene follows into alignment.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit in quiet, declare, 'I am the I AM'; revise by affirming 'wealth is the constancy of divine life within me,' and feel its reality.