Neville Goddard on Job 2:7-13 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 2 in context

Scripture Focus

7So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

8And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

9Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.

10But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

11Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

12And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

13So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

Job 2:7-13

Biblical Context

Satan afflicts Job with painful boils; he sits in ashes as his wife urges him to curse God, and his three friends come to mourn. For seven days they sit in silence, offering sympathy before speaking.

Neville's Inner Vision

Job represents a state of consciousness pressed by circumstance to the furnace of awareness. The boils are inner blocks born of fear, doubt, and the belief that pain governs the self. Sitting among the ashes, the mind is invited into the stillness where imagination is tested: will you identify with sensation or acknowledge the I AM behind all experience? The wife’s urging to curse God embodies resignation—the old belief that pain is the master. The friends arriving to comfort are inner opinions trying to diagnose your condition rather than restore awareness of who you are. Job’s refusal to sin with his lips is a declaration that good and evil are not external judgments but images within consciousness obeying your assumption. In the seven days of listening silence a birth occurs: you may revise the scene by affirming the sovereignty of I AM, recognizing you are the awareness that makes and unmakes every state. The true healing is inner recognition: you remain the I AM while the scene passes, perceiving all as images within you.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Assume you are the I AM and repeat, 'I am the cause of this experience.' Then revise the scene in vivid imagination—see the boils fade, the ashes become a throne of awareness, and feel a return to inner peace.