Neville Goddard on Job 24:2-11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 24 in context

Scripture Focus

2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

4They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

5Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

6They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

11Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

Job 24:2-11

Biblical Context

The passage catalogs acts of social injustice—exploitation of the vulnerable and neglect of the poor—revealing a state of society that mirrors inner neglect of mercy.

Neville's Inner Vision

In this reading, the outer crimes enumerated in Job 24 are not distant happenings but pictures held in your own mind. Your landmarks are inner coordinates of belief; when you imagine taking what belongs to others, you reveal a consciousness cut off from the I AM, from mercy, from the wholeness that truth asserts. The wealthy ransacking the vulnerable is the mind’s habit of security-by-scarcity, fear-disguised as reality. The cure is to reverse the scene by assuming a new state of consciousness: you are the commonwealth of justice and mercy, you envision and feel that all belong to you and you to all. When you dwell in that revised sense—the poor not as others' problem but as images of your own need and your own readiness to give—you magnetize the conditions of that state. The “wild donkeys” move to work under guidance of a higher awareness; the fields yield under faith. Remember, God is I AM; your imagination, directed with mercy, creates a world where all are fed, clothed, sheltered, and valued.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and revise the scene: restore the landmarks, feed the hungry, clothe the naked in your mental picture, and feel the mercy as real now. Feel this mercy as real in your present moment.