Job 16 Inner Witness

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice that every image - sackcloth, the dust, the tears, the shadow of death - speaks not to history but to a state of consciousness. The sackcloth is humility; the deflation of the horn is the surrender of ego; the dust is the isolation felt when you believe you are separate from God. The 'earth' that should not cover blood is the outer screen - a belief that life’s testimony can drown your cry. Yet the witness in heaven is your own I AM, the indwelling reality who knows you beyond appearances. Your friends’ scorn is the old chatter of a past state; your tears are the energy waking the inner petition toward God. The line 'that one might plead for a man with God' becomes a description of your own desire for an inner mediator—the living law of imagination by which you may plead with God as you would a neighbor. The culmination - 'I shall go the way whence I shall not return' - points to the shift you can effect now by assuming a new state: I am heard, I am held, and the journey is inward.