Neville Goddard on Job 30:16-19 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 30 in context

Scripture Focus

16And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

18By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

19He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

Job 30:16-19

Biblical Context

Job describes an ongoing experience of deep suffering—soul poured out, nights of pain, and a sense of being cast into mire and ashes. The passage foregrounds physical decay as a metaphor for the inner storm of consciousness.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your body’s storm is not the enemy cast from without; it is the weather of your own inner state. When Job says his soul is poured out and the nights bring no rest, he reveals a mind convinced that life is other than the I AM that you are. The great force of disease, the shifting garment, the mire and ashes—these are symbols of belief, not facts. Change the scene by recognizing that you are the awareness behind every sensation, the I AM that remains unmoved while appearances change. In that recognition, the worn garment is revised by a simple act of revision: you speak and feel as though the next moment is the healed one. The body follows the heart's assurance because imagination precedes manifestation. Do not chase symptoms; attend to the state you are imagining. If you claim, even now, 'I am whole,' and feel that wholeness as a felt truth in your chest, the outer form begins to align with it. You are not dust and ashes; you are consciousness, and consciousness is forever free.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, breathe deeply, and state, with feeling, 'I am whole and well now.' Let a warm, healing light imagine filling your chest, radiating through every limb, until the sense of wholeness becomes your immediate experience.