Neville Goddard on Job 29:1-25 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 29 in context

Scripture Focus

1Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

2Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

3When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

4As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;

5When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

6When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;

7When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!

8The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.

9The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

10The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

11When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:

12Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

13The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

14I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

15I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

16I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

17And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

18Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

19My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

20My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

21Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

22After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

23And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

24If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

25I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

Job 29:1-25

Biblical Context

Job 29:1-25 recalls Job yearning for the days when God kept him safe and the world reflected his righteousness. He remembers delivering the poor, comforting the widows, and ruling with justice as if his very presence were a blessing.

Neville's Inner Vision

Job’s longing is a return to a state of consciousness you already carry. The candle upon the head and the light in darkness are the living proof that awareness can walk through any circumstance when it remembers itself as I AM. When he says, 'I put on righteousness, and it clothed me,' imagine that you are putting on a garment of unwavering perception—a robe that alters what you notice, not the world outside. The old days of his youth are the moment in which his inner tabernacle was saturated with divine secret; in that moment the city gates became places of truth, and his word settled on others like rain, blessing the poor, lifting the widow, comforting mourners. This is not bragging; it is a declaration of the power of consciousness to become the very environment it seeks. Your present condition is not final; it is the return of that same kingly image that blesses and judges rightly when you cease arguing with it and align with it.

Practice This Now

Assume the inner posture of the man who delivers the poor and sits as a king among your inner people; revise your sense of lack by affirming, 'I am that man now,' and feel the light rise in you as if you wore a robe of righteousness.