Neville Goddard on Job 15:21-23 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 15 in context

Scripture Focus

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.

Job 15:21-23

Biblical Context

Prosperity is shadowed by an approaching destruction. The speaker doubts he will emerge from darkness and wanders in search of bread as darkness nears.

Neville's Inner Vision

Be still and listen with the I AM. The lines you read in Job are not external calamities but the inner movements of belief about yourself. In Job 15:21-23, the prosperous image is followed by a destroyer because the mind has not yet settled in the fact that you are the one imagining your life. The darkness is simply the old image of limitation clinging to consciousness, a hesitation in the I AM that says relief must come from without. When you accept that you are the I AM, the destroyer dissolves into the tempo of your own breathing. The man wandering for bread represents a consciousness seeking form in the external world while ignoring the inward supply of imagination. If you revise the premise and feel it real that you are already free, the sounds of doom recede and you awaken to a present abundance. Your prosperity does not threaten you; your belief about it does.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes and feel prosperity as present. Say softly, I AM the I AM; there is no doom, return from darkness into abundance, and rest in that feeling.