Neville Goddard on Job 16:1-22 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 16 in context

Scripture Focus

1Then Job answered and said,

2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.

3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

4I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

5But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

6Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?

7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

8And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

9He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

11God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

12I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

13His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

14He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

16My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

17Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure.

18O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.

19Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.

20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

21O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

Job 16:1-22

Biblical Context

Job's voice laments being worn down by others, while the inner witness hints at a higher reality waiting to be claimed. His plea points to a present awareness that can be revised from within.

Neville's Inner Vision

Job's outcry is a doorway into the inner state he has forgotten he can rearrange. When he declares that his witness is in heaven and that his own prayer is pure, he names the two anchors of reality in Neville's terms: the I AM that stands behind every thought, and the inner record that cannot be erased. The earth and the crowd are not separate worsts but projections of a mind untamed by imagination. The complaint, the glares, the weeping are signals of an old assumption pressed upon the body. Yet the I AM, the real you, is not moved by the sounds of agreement or denial from others; it is the one who can revise the scene by feeling as if the end is already achieved. So, in practice, return to the inner witness and imagine, with steady conviction, the scene reversed: a soul at ease, a body restored, a community that stands with you in harmony. Let your next prayer be a declaration of the present tense you intend to inhabit.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, assume the role of the inner witness, and repeat: I am the witness in heaven; my prayer is pure. Feel the end of the story as if it is already so, letting your body soften and your world reflect that fact.