Neville Goddard on Job 31:5-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 31 in context

Scripture Focus

5If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

6Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.

7If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;

8Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

Job 31:5-8

Biblical Context

Job 31:5-8 presents a vow of integrity, challenging vanity and deceit, and asking to be weighed by God in an impartial balance to prove righteousness. It links outward conduct with the inward scale of consciousness.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the I AM, Job’s petition becomes a clear statement of consciousness at work. The “even balance” is the inner scale upon which thoughts, choices, and loyalties are weighed. If I have walked in vanity or pursued deceit, I am naming the movements of a state of mind—an attitude that vibrates in the imagination. To be weighed is to test the calibration of my inner world: am I living from the image I desire, or am I governed by images I do not approve? The balance is not a judge; it is a mirror showing the consistency of my state. I am not a victim of fate, but the ruler of my inner realm; integrity becomes the standard by which I measure every act, every impulse, every glance. If my heart follows my eyes into wrongness, I revise, for the consequences are the echoed result of that inner state. Yet the remedy is simple: return to the I AM, revise my assumption, and feel it real that I am upright. In that moment the blot dissolves and a new seed is sown, aligned with my true being.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and visualize an inner balance scale before you. Silently declare: I AM the measure; in this moment I choose integrity; feel the scale settle into evenness as you align with your true I AM.