Neville Goddard on Job 41:7-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 41 in context

Scripture Focus

7Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

8Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

Job 41:7-8

Biblical Context

The passage presents the image of an immense inner foe and asks if it can be subdued by weapons; after acknowledging the struggle, it instructs to stop fighting and refrain from further action, pointing to a change of approach rather than conquest.

Neville's Inner Vision

Leviathan stands as a symbol of a stubborn state within consciousness—fear, resistance, and the ego’s combativeness. To fill its skin with barbed irons or its head with fish spears represents attempts to fix or dominate reality through force of mind. Saying 'lay thine hand upon him' and 'remember the battle' invites you to acknowledge the state with attention, yet not to wage another struggle. In Neville’s psychology, you cannot vanquish a state of consciousness by force; you dissolve it by turning to the I AM—the awareness that you are. The scene invites you to cease feeding the battle with fear and to revise your inner assumption into one of unity and mercy. When imagination is steadied in the truth of being, the inner Leviathan loses its grip and peace arises as the natural state of awareness and accountability to your own inner law.

Practice This Now

Assume you are the I AM filling the scene; revise the belief that trouble must be fought, and feel the calm reality of peace and merciful awareness now.