Neville Goddard on Job 9:19-24 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Job 9 in context

Scripture Focus

19If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

20If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

21Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.

22This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.

23If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.

24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

Job 9:19-24

Biblical Context

Job contemplates that neither strength nor judgment can guarantee relief, and even perfection may condemn him. He observes a world where the wicked seem to control the judges and the innocent suffer.

Neville's Inner Vision

Job speaks as one waking to a deeper principle: the world you call external is but the dream of your inner state. When you claim strength, you awaken a god of power; when you claim judgment, you awaken an inner judge who condemns. The line about the earth being in the hand of the wicked points to belief in power apart from your awareness, not to remote fact. The scourge and the trial reveal how fear and a sense of separation color experience. Yet the true judge is the I AM within you, the unwavering awareness that remains untouched by time or verdict. If you insist you are perfect, the mind will prove otherwise; therefore, choose to inhabit the I AM and know yourself as the only reality shaping every scene. By revising to a state of perfect justice and love, you reverse the dream and realize that all events are governed by your inner state.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, assume the I AM state, and declare: 'I am the I AM; I govern my world from within.' Then visualize a scene where the judges' faces illuminate with clarity and the dream of injustice dissolves into harmony.