Neville Goddard on Job 4:5-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 4 in context

Scripture Focus

5But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

6Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

Job 4:5-6

Biblical Context

Trouble comes and you faint, troubling you. The verse points to your inner state, naming your fear, your confidence, your hope, and the uprightness you claim.

Neville's Inner Vision

Job 4:5-6 speaks not of a separate judge or calamity, but of the inner movements of consciousness. In Neville's key, trouble is only the tail of a belief you have accepted as true about yourself. Your fear is the memory you keep replaying; your confidence and hope are the imagined end you have already felt as real. The lines remind you that the uprightness of your ways is a state of consciousness you have been living, not an external badge. When the touch comes and you faint, you are simply identifying with a part of you that feels separate from the I AM. Change that identification by assuming the end: you are upright, untroubled, and secure in divine awareness now. The I AM holds you, and imagination is the instrument by which you revise the scene. Give your attention to the feeling-state you wish to inhabit, not to the appearance of trouble. Ponder that your future is already scripted in your present state of awareness.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes and assume the end—feel uprightness and calm as your immediate state. Silently declare I AM, this is my state now, and dwell in that feeling until the sense of trouble dissolves.