Neville Goddard on Proverbs 6:1-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Proverbs 6 in context

Scripture Focus

1My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

2Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

3Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.

4Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

5Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

Proverbs 6:1-5

Biblical Context

The verses warn against becoming surety for a friend or pledging to a stranger, because your words and commitments will imprison you. Act now to free yourself by humble, decisive action.

Neville's Inner Vision

Everything in this proverb is a call to the state you inhabit. When you pledge yourself as surety for another or clothe yourself in another's obligation, you are not dealing with money but with your inner state of fear and obligation. Your words become a snare because you have identified with an outcome outside your own I AM. The friend or stranger is not a person alone; it is a situation your imagination has allowed to bind your attention. To deliver yourself is to turn your attention from the outer scene back to the I AM, the only reality that truly holds power. Humbling yourself is not humiliation but a reorientation toward inner truth: you owe allegiance to your own awakening, not to the dictates of debt or duty that keep you listening to the crowd. Do not sleep; keep the mind awake to the realization that you are the authority of your experience. When you assume that I AM state, the hunter or fowler vanish, and you stand free, knowing your life is governed by consciousness alone.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, breathe, and imagine yourself as a roe leaping away from the hunter. Then revise in your mind any pledge that binds you and affirm I am free from all entanglements.