Neville Goddard on Job 17:1-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 17 in context

Scripture Focus

1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

2Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

3Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

4For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

Job 17:1-4

Biblical Context

Job laments mortal frailty, feeling stared down by mockers, and longs for a surety with God, while recognizing that others’ understanding is hidden.

Neville's Inner Vision

Job 17:1-4 lays bare the inner weather of a man who feels his life slipping, surrounded by mockers and provoked by an unrelenting inner eye. In Neville’s language, the verse is a map of states of consciousness, not a record of outer facts. The breath that is 'corrupt' and the days that are 'extinct' are beliefs in decay; the cry for a surety is a longing to align with the I AM, to strike hands with the divine Presence within rather than with a future event. When it says their hearts are hid from understanding, that is my awareness that I have permitted a tale of separation to govern me. The remedy is a deliberate revision: assume the truth that God is my I AM, that I am already in covenant with the eternal, that the mockery dissolves in the light of that awareness. Endurance arises as I refuse to entertain any scene contradictory to my indwelling life. In this light, probability bows to reality, and the current trial becomes a doorway into my true nature.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes and declare, 'I am the I AM; I choose to stand in covenant with God now.' Revise the scene by imagining the mockers fading and your life anchored in timeless awareness, and feel the endurance rise.