Neville Goddard on Job 36:8-16 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 36 in context

Scripture Focus

8And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

9Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

10He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

11If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

12But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

13But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.

14They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

15He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

16Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.

Job 36:8-16

Biblical Context

Affliction binds the outward life, and God reveals one’s true work and call to return from iniquity. Obedience brings prosperity and life; rebellion ends in ignorance, while mercy comes to the oppressed and God can widen any narrow place into abundance.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Job’s words I hear the inner weather of consciousness. Fetters and cords are not mere chains but the stubborn beliefs I have accepted as real about myself. When God opens the ear to discipline, He calls me to return to the I AM—the one I am behind every thought. To obey and serve, in Neville’s sense, means to align my imagination with the truth of my being, to stop arguing with the sense of lack, and to feel as if I am already free. Then prosperity and pleasures arise not as distant favors but as an inward condition of peace, abundance, and clear knowledge. If I resist, I die to awareness, clinging to ignorance as if it were life. The hypocrite’s heart is simply a mind refusing the discipline that awakens consciousness; the poor in affliction hear, and mercy flows through the seeing. The promise remains: God can lift me from the strait to the broad place, and the table I imagine becomes full of fatness as I accept the reality of the I AM.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, close your eyes, and assume you are already in the broad place with a table full of fatness. Revise one limiting belief about yourself into 'I am the I AM, free now,' and feel that truth as if it is happening right this moment for five minutes.