Neville Goddard on Job 27:20-21 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 27 in context

Scripture Focus

20Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

21The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

Job 27:20-21

Biblical Context

The verses describe terror and a tempest sweeping a man away at night, as if fear itself pulls him from his place. It portrays upheaval as an inner movement that unsettles consciousness.

Neville's Inner Vision

These lines are not about a distant casualty but about your state of awareness. Terrors taking hold are the waters of belief; the tempest is a persistent thought that sweeps you out of the quiet center. When you identify with the fear, you become the one carried away, the mind's wind rushing past your place of I AM. The east wind of sudden change represents an interior shift in mood that seems to eject you from steadiness. Yet the storm is only a movement of mind, not a change in the eternal you. Your true self—the I AM, the witness of awareness—remains unmoved, observing the sea and the wind. To rise above it, you must assume a new state of consciousness. Rehearse the feeling: I am the I AM; this fear cannot alter who I am. See the scene revised in imagination: the waters subside, the wind quiets, and you remain at your place within the illumination of consciousness, while the storm passes through you without changing your essence.

Practice This Now

Practice: when fear wears its mask, pause, close the eyes, and assert 'I AM' at the center of awareness; revise the scene to 'I remain calm and unmoved by any storm' and feel that truth until it is real.