Neville Goddard on Job 7:13-17 - 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:

15So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

16I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

Job 7:13-17

Biblical Context

Job describes rest that should comfort him but is turned into fear by dreams and terrifying visions. He longs for life to end and questions the value of man under divine attention.

Neville's Inner Vision

Job's cry is a window into a mind under the spell of fear-made-visions. When the bed is supposed to comfort, the psyche conjures dreams that terrify, showing that the so-called danger lives first as an inner movement of consciousness. The 'God' that seems to scour and overwhelm is the I AM projecting a drama from your own states; magnifying you only as the field in which you awaken, not as a judgment of your worth. The remedy is to shift to a higher assumption: that you are the awareness that cannot be hurt, and that dreams are mere images within that awareness. Feel the reality of your eternal self here and now; revise the scene by stating, in imagination, "I am safe, I am the observer, this dream passes." In that shift, fear recedes and the sense of vanity dissolves into the one enduring fact: you are the I AM, and the world you see is but a projection of your inner life.

Practice This Now

Assume the I AM as your present state and feel it real in your bones. Then revise any troubling dream or vision to reflect your unstained, safe consciousness.