Job 16: Inner Witness

Neville's Inner Vision

From this moment, the verse speaks not of outside fault, but of your inner state. Job’s not-guilty claim is the assertion that your consciousness has nothing to defend against God because you are creation in right relation to your own I AM. The “witness in heaven” is the inner awareness that records you as whole, and the “record on high” is the memory of your true nature retained by spirit. When friends scorn, you still pour tears unto God, which in Neville’s reading is not weakness but the disciplined feeling-attitude that keeps attention on the divine within. The longing line, 'O that one might plead for a man with God, as a neighbor,' becomes: you may imagine an inner advocate—your higher self—interceding for your welfare, not as someone else but as your own expanded consciousness. Thus trials become invitations to revise your sense of self and reality inwardly. The inner kingdom is the real court, where your state of awareness writes the outcome. Therefore, cultivate innocence as a living image you assume, accept as true, and feel it now, for imagination alone creates the seen.