Neville Goddard on Job 2:7-8 - 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.

Job 2:7-8

Biblical Context

Job is afflicted with painful boils and sits among the ashes. The passage portrays a vivid scene of deep outward suffering and trial.

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the I AM, the boils and ashes are not a bodily catastrophe but a symbolic inner state. The ‘Satan’ who departs is the restless mind that forgets the all-embracing awareness in the moment. When Job sits upon the ashes and scrapes with a potsherd, he demonstrates how the ego clings to outward forms while inner awareness waits to be claimed. In this reading, you do not conquer pain by argument but by reintroducing yourself to the one who never changes: the I AM, the awareness that sees and feels. Turn away from the appearance of sickness and the urge to scrape at symptoms, and repeat a new state until it becomes your reality. Suffering becomes a doorway; trial becomes an invitation to revise the inner state, to imagine health and vitality as already present, and to rest in that certainty until feeling follows.