Neville Goddard on Job 30:1-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 30 in context

Scripture Focus

1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

2Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

5They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

6To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

7Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

Job 30:1-7

Biblical Context

Job 30:1-7 depicts Job lamenting that the younger generation mocks him, recalling when he would not have set their fathers with his flock’s dogs. It paints a picture of abandonment and wilderness—the desolate exile of a man out of favor.

Neville's Inner Vision

Read as Neville would, Job’s complaint reveals a shifting state of consciousness, not a powerless history. The derision of those younger than him mirrors the habit thoughts that mock the I AM when it wakes to its power. The wilderness, famine, and caves are inner conditions—scarcities imagined by the old self, not fixed facts. The man in exile is the mind's belief that it has been cut off from its own limitless supply. The remedy is not endurance alone, but a deliberate act of revision: to affirm that I AM is the sole source, that this awareness now feeds me with abundance, companionship, and safety. When I identify with the inner king, the outer signs begin to recede, and the 'old age' of limitation dissolves as new energy streams in. The vision of the cliffs and caves becomes a theater in which you rehearse your royal self; you do not fight the outer storm, you affirm the inner heaven. In time, the inner dynamic shifts the scene, and those deriding voices are seen as mere echoes in a dream of lack.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Assume the state as already complete; say, 'I AM the I AM, the source of all I need.' Feel the reality of that truth for two minutes, letting abundance replace lack.