Inner Reckoning of the Wicked

Job 15:20-35 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Job 15 in context

Scripture Focus

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 15:20-35

Biblical Context

The passage portrays the wicked as suffering and fading; wealth and comfort fail, and darkness awaits those who oppose God.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within these lines, the wicked’s pain is not a punishment scattered on a distant life; it is a state of consciousness that has forgotten its I AM. The narrative’s ‘darkness,’ ‘fear,’ and ‘desolate cities’ are inner weather—conditions that arise when one believes itself opposed to the Almighty. The verse warns that wealth and safety do not endure when the mind clings to vanity or to a faithless posture. But notice: all of this is reversible. If you insist that you are separate from God, you invite struggle; if you remember your union with the I AM, you invite a rearrangement of circumstance into harmony with divine life. Job’s description of collapse is a mirror of a mind that resists God’s ruling presence, and your task is to revise that picture by assuming a state of readiness, abundance, and peace that belongs to your original nature. The true wickedness is not a person but a thought-form; the true deliverance is awakening to the conviction, I AM with you, I AM your life, and your world begins to respond accordingly.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and revise the scene by assuming you are already safe in the I AM. Sustain that felt sense for a few minutes and observe fear dissolve as your inner reality aligns with divine order.

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