Neville Goddard on Job 16:5-17 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 16 in context

Scripture Focus

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.

Job 16:5-17

Biblical Context

Job laments deep suffering; outward counsel and social judgment fail to ease his grief, leaving him feeling broken and accused. The passage presents suffering as an inner, felt reality rather than merely external circumstance.

Neville's Inner Vision

In this poem of pain you are not merely watching a man suffer but witnessing a state of consciousness in motion. The 'I' that feels the blow is the awareness that imagines a world; the outer voices and the gnashing eyes are projections of a belief that power can break you. Yet the true self remains the I AM, unshaken by scenes that pass across the screen of awareness. Therefore, do not seek relief by arguing with the world; revise the interior premise. Assume the new state of healing, ease, and light, and feel it as real now. When you treat grief as a transient appearance within your consciousness, you liberate the power to transform it. The so-called injustice and the cruelty of others dissolve into the brightness of the inner witness who commands the scene. Prayer, then, is not supplication but alignment with the fact that you are consciousness creating this stage; faith becomes the unwavering trust that you are already healed within.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes, breathe deeply, and declare, 'I AM the healing Presence now.' Feel the relief as if already real, and envision the surrounding voices softening into understanding.