Neville Goddard on Job 30:16-23 - 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.

20I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

21Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

22Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

23For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Job 30:16-23

Biblical Context

Job expresses deep suffering, feeling his soul poured out and God distant as he endures sickness, being cast into mire, and life dissolving. He believes death awaits all living.

Neville's Inner Vision

Job speaks from a state under siege, yet the outer suffering is only the language of an inner condition. The poured out soul, the sleepless bones, the changed garment, the mire and ashes, are not random events but signs of a belief currently ruling the mind. When he cries to God and receives no answer, that is the moment the I AM seems to be listening to the old story rather than the truth of its own power. Yet the wind that lifts him and dissolves his substance is the very motion of consciousness seeking a new form; you can hear the implied invitation: shift the center from the body to awareness. In truth, you are the I AM that witnesses pain and the I AM that heals the scene by its own insistence. The house appointed for all living is not a distant tomb but the enduring nature of your awareness awaiting your acceptance. By calmly assuming the revised state, you convert the crucifixion of appearance into the birth of a new sense of being, here and now.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: In the next minute, close your eyes, repeat I AM here, I AM now, and feel yourself held by that presence until the sense of affliction softens and your inner atmosphere becomes calm.