Neville Goddard on Job 16:4-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 16 in context

Scripture Focus

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?

Job 16:4-6

Biblical Context

Job notes that he could speak harshly like his friends, but would rather comfort them with his words; yet his own grief remains, and speech alone does not ease it.

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the scene is not a quarrel of tongues, but a map of inner states. The 'friends' who shake their heads are your own judgments; their condemnation a voice of separation, your own as-if-self. When Job says I would strengthen you with my mouth, he reveals the positive inner posture you can adopt toward any seeming trial: you meet another's pain with a refreshing current of awareness—an inward comfort that travels through speech because speech is only the outward form of an inner movement. Real relief comes not from arguing the case but from aligning with the I AM that remains untouched by the surface sound. Your grief is not assuaged by arguing one side of the story; it is softened when you embody the assurance that consciousness is primarily the healer. If you insist on speaking in condemnation, you feed the old round of cause-and-effect; when you revise to bless, you break the pattern and witness the move of grace within.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Assume the role of the consoling inner voice now. For 5 minutes, revise the scene by seeing yourself as the I AM comforting the other, feeling reassurance flow from your own breath and words, and noticing your relief expand.