Neville Goddard on Job 16:7-22 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 16 in context

Scripture Focus

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.

18O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.

19Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.

20My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

21O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

22When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

Job 16:7-22

Biblical Context

Job laments weariness and betrayal as he endures a brutal trial. Yet he proclaims his innocence and longs for a heavenly witness who can plead with God on behalf of a man.

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of Job not as a victim of outer fate, but as the I AM awakening to its own trial of belief. The I AM is the inner witness; the body and others are outer signs showing the mind's current assumptions. The wrath, the gaping mouths, the scorn of friends—these are internal conclusions that you have entertained about yourself, until they show up as forming your experience. The enemy and the wicked are your stubborn beliefs opposing your true nature. Yet at the center, Job declares my witness is in heaven and my record is on high. This is the crucial point: consciousness writes its own record, not the outward crowd. The cry to God is a call to the I AM to reaffirm innocence and clarity. When you re-enter that inner courtroom, you restore the line of sight to the divine observer within you. Your outer world will respond to that quiet, original verdict, and the sense of being under siege will soften into a confident sense of being seen by God within.

Practice This Now

Assume the role of the witness in heaven now: My record is divine, I am innocent. Breathe slowly and feel the I AM soothing the storm until the sense of attack dissolves into inner stillness.