Neville Goddard on Job 5:1-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 5 in context

Scripture Focus

1Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

2For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

3I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

Job 5:1-5

Biblical Context

These verses warn that folly brings ruin and that outer events reflect inner alignment; true counsel is sought within, not from outside.

Neville's Inner Vision

Call now, not to a distant council, but to the I AM within you. The foolish man is not some external fool; he is the state of consciousness that refuses to accept the unity of life and the power you possess as the thinking awareness. When you say 'my harvest' belongs to fear, envy, or scarcity, you plant roots in a bed of ruin. I have seen the root of folly take hold in a mind that identifies with lack, and the next moment it curses the habitation—the very house of your world—because belief has become your builder. The gate of your life is not guarded by judges or creditors; it is protected or exposed by the clarity of your inner sentence. Your 'children' and 'substance' are the images you permit to occupy your mind, and when you feed them with worry, they fall from safety and are taken by hunger or robbers of imagination. Return to the truth: you are the I AM, fully conscious, responsible for your state. In that realization, the ruin dissolves and a new harvest emerges, born from a new inner decree.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes, assume the I AM is the reality you inhabit, and feel that fullness now; revise your sense of lack until it registers as the felt truth.