Job 16:15-17 Inner Purity

Neville's Inner Vision

Every line of Job’s lament reveals an inner state rather than external guilt. When he says he sewed sackcloth and defiled his horn in the dust, he names a consciousness clinging to pain, not an act of crime. The foul face and shadow of death are symbols of belief in separation from the I AM; the horn denotes ego’s restless drive, pressed into dust by a steadfast awareness. The assertion that his prayer is pure acknowledges an unshakable inner duty to witness truth, not to argue with circumstance. In Neville terms, you are not bound by outer trials but are the I AM imagining the scene. Feelings of grief arise from a belief in lack; your being remains intact, watching with purity. The practice is to reverse the assumption: see that you stand before God as pure awareness, and let appearances yield to that inner posture. With that revision, the sackcloth dissolves and the seeming clash between suffering and purity yields to a single radiant truth.