Neville Goddard on Job 17:14-15 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 17 in context

Scripture Focus

14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

Job 17:14-15

Biblical Context

Job 17:14–15 reveals a confession that corruption and decay feel like family to him, while he asks where his hope now resides. The verse captures his struggle with suffering and the search for a future.

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville Goddard lens, this is not about external enemies but inner states of consciousness. The 'corruption' and the 'worm' are inner pictures your mind has mistaken for reality. By calling them father and mother, Job disidentifies from his true nature and binds himself to a clipped version of life. Yet the cry 'where is now my hope?' is the divine invitation to wake from sleep. Your true I AM, your awareness, stands untouched by the shifting scenes of pain. The inner voice that names corruption as kin can be turned around: you redefine what is kin by acknowledging that you are the sole creator of your experience. When you assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled—right now—hope does not wait for a future scene. Imagine yourself as the I AM, perceiving corruption as a thought-form dissolving in the warmth of consciousness. In that posture, hope returns not as a promise, but as the very presence of your life.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes, breathe, and declare mentally, 'I AM the source of all I see. Corruption and decay are ideas dissolving in the light of I AM.' Then feel gratitude and rest in the sense that your hope is present now.