Neville Goddard on Job 3:13-19 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 3 in context

Scripture Focus

13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

18There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

19The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

Job 3:13-19

Biblical Context

Job 3:13-19 speaks of death's relief as a final rest from labors, a place where oppression ceases and every state of life is quiet. In Neville's reading, this rest is an inner shift of consciousness rather than external events.

Neville's Inner Vision

Job's longing to lie still is not a call to physical death but to a shift in consciousness. You are the I AM, the calm awareness that witnesses every scene. When the outer world speaks of the wicked, the oppressor, the prison, see them as images in your inner theatre. With the same breath that Job desires, assume the state: I am at rest now; I have nothing more to endure, for I am the one who makes the scenes disappear by not feeding them. The hardened rulers and the gold and silver of men are outlines, not realities to the self that is awake. Rest comes when you cease from conjecture and allow your inner light to reign; the so-called laborers, great and small, remain, yet the master within you is free. This is deliverance: a feeling of peace that dissolves trouble, a quiet where every voice of oppression is silenced by presence. If you dwell in that reverent stillness, you will discover a salvation that was always yours.