Neville Goddard on Job 7:13-14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 7 in context

Scripture Focus

13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

14Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:

Job 7:13-14

Biblical Context

Job 7:13–14 shows rest should comfort him, yet dreams and visions terrify him, exposing the inner fears unleashed at night. It points to how our nighttime experience mirrors our inner state and judgments about ourselves.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the bed and couch as the stage where you believe you are safe, and the interruptions—dreams and visions—are your consciousness testing its boundaries. The speaker thinks night brings terror because a fixed state of unease has settled into the body. Yet in the Nevillean view, God is the I AM you are, not an external judge; the dreams are your own inner pictures calling for attention. You create your night by what you believe about yourself when you lie down; fear is only the image that arises from a thought you have not yet revised. By surrendering into a new state of awareness—affirming 'I AM Peace,' 'I AM the witness here'—you re-script those scenes. As you feel the truth of your own unity with awareness, the terrifying visions soften, and the mind becomes teachable rather than punitive. The night then becomes a practice ground where you claim mastery over images by insisting that you are the perceiver, not the prey. The I AM can calm any dream; your only work is to dwell in that state and let new pictures form from that assurance.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Before sleep, assume the stance 'I AM'—the calm witness—and revise the night script by imagining a guiding light or trusted presence soothing the scene; feel that reassurance settling into your body.