Storms Within: Job 9:17-18

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville vantage, the tempest and the wounds are not external punishments but inner movements of consciousness. The 'he' who breaks you in the verse is the story you tell about yourself—the resistant self-image that believes you are at the mercy of circumstances. When you identify with the I AM, you realize that the storm is a vibration of your own mind, a buildup of neglected states of awareness you have not yet claimed as real. The multiplicity of wounds represents myriad beliefs you hold about deficiency, attack, or lack; bitterness is the emotional weight of believing separation from good. Yet the I AM is not crushed by the weather of thought; it remains the constant, tranquil witness. By choosing a new sentence for reality—feeling as the I AM now healing, camouflaging nothing, accepting nothing less than complete life—you soften the storm, dissolve the imagined wounds, and let breath return as awareness expands. The verse invites a radical revision: you are the author and the audience of every inner event, and through consciousness you may transform suffering into waking into your true Self.