Neville Goddard on Job 31:21-22 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 31 in context

Scripture Focus

21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

22Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

Job 31:21-22

Biblical Context

Job affirms he did not harm the fatherless and recognizes his help at the gate (God and community), illustrating righteous intent and accountability.

Neville's Inner Vision

In this short vow, Job points to a universal law of consciousness: the vulnerable part of you is sacred, and your surrounding help is the I AM at the gate of your mind. If you have lifted your hand against that sacred image—condemned a part of yourself or another—your power (the arm) would fall away, a symbol of belief in separation. Yet the keeper of your world is not judgment but compassionate awareness. When you align with the presence that sees no harm but only protection, your arm is strengthened by the realization that you are the source of all action. See the fatherless as a split-off desire or need within, and treat it with guarding love. Your neighbor mirrors the same I AM, and to protect one is to protect all. The gate opens to the true, indivisible self that never harms, only heals and completes.

Practice This Now

Assume the I AM is guarding the vulnerable in you now; declare, 'I will not harm the fatherless within or in others, for the I AM at the gate protects.' Feel the renewed power flow to your arm as you revise.