Neville Goddard on Job 24:14-16 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 24 in context

Scripture Focus

14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

16In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

Job 24:14-16

Biblical Context

The verses describe wicked acts cloaked in darkness—murder, adultery, and theft—whose deeds are thought hidden by daylight. They imply that such concealment cannot endure under the light of awareness.

Neville's Inner Vision

Receive Job 24:14–16 as a mirror of your inner life. The 'murderer rising with the light' is not a man with a dagger but a thought-formed impulse that would crush tenderness when the day begins; the 'poor and needy' are the tender states of consciousness you wake to in awareness. When you name the I AM as your true self, you see that every act of seeming darkness is a movement of your own mind—an attention given to a story, a fear fed, a habit rehearsed in the night of your assumptions. The claim 'the eye of the adulterer' waiting for twilight is the mind seeking privacy away from truth; it disguises its face by denying immediate sight, yet the light of consciousness exposes it. The line about digging through houses in the dark shows how you penetrate patterns in secret to confirm the belief that light will not reach them in daybreak. Your real power is the light that reveals all, transforming concealment into understanding and integrity.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Sit in quiet stillness and assume the state 'I am the light that sees all within me.' Then revise a hidden deed by affirming, 'From this moment I bring every hidden thing to the light of awareness and act from integrity.'