The Yî King · James Legge
Judgment
Ki Zi intimates progress and success in small matters. There will be advantage in being firm and correct. There has been good fortune in the beginning; there may be disorder in the end.
1882 scan · p. 204Line 1 · Nine, undivided
The first line, undivided, (shows its subject as a driver) who drags back his wheel, (or as a fox) which has wet his tail. There will be no error.
1882 scan · p. 205Line 2 · Six, divided
The second line, divided, (shows its subject as) a wife who has lost her (carriage-)screen. There is no occasion to go in pursuit of it. In seven days she will find it.
1882 scan · p. 205Line 3 · Nine, undivided
The third line, undivided, (suggests the case of) Kao Zung who attacked the Demon region, but was three years in subduing it. Small men should not be employed (in such enterprises).
1882 scan · p. 205Line 4 · Six, divided
The fourth line, divided, shows its subject with rags provided against any leak (in his boat), and on his guard all day long.
1882 scan · p. 206Line 5 · Nine, undivided
The fifth line, undivided, shows its subject (as) the neighbour in the east who slaughters an ox (for his sacrifice); but this is not equal to the (small) spring sacrifice of the neighbour in the west, whose sincerity receives the blessing.
1882 scan · p. 206Line 6 · Six, divided
The topmost line, divided, shows its subject with (even) his head immersed. The position is perilous.
1882 scan · p. 206James Legge · The Yî King (1882), Princeton scan. All 450 selected passages were independently image-read and compared by AI; unresolved print details remain. Not human or expert collation. Source and data ↗