Neville Goddard on Job 35:8-11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 35 in context

Scripture Focus

8Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

9By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

10But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

Job 35:8-11

Biblical Context

The verse shows that wrong deeds may hurt, while righteous alignment profits the seeker. It notes oppression that makes the oppressed cry and calls the reader to remember God as maker who gives songs in the night and teaches us wiser living.

Neville's Inner Vision

All of Job 35:8–11 speaks to the inner economy of consciousness. Wickedness and righteousness are not external facts but states you entertain within. When you insist on a world of hurt or when you praise your own right-doing, you are only shaping the outer experience to reflect your inner state. The cries of the oppressed are the clamor of thoughts that have lost touch with the maker within. Yet nowhere in the passage is there an appeal to the weakness of circumstance; the call is to ask where is God my maker—the I AM behind your awareness—who can sing in the night. The maker does not abandon you but teaches you by the very trials, making you wiser than the beasts and birds as you learn to align with the truth of your being. In Neville's terms, the acts of oppression and power are your mind's old patterns; the true force is the God within, the I AM, imagining a wiser, freer life. When you recognize that awareness as your creator, your nights fill with songs of assurance rather than fear.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, close your eyes, and declare, 'I AM the maker of my life now.' Feel the inner God as author of your scene, and envision a night warmed by songs of freedom that arise from wiser thoughts.