Conflict

不永所事，小有言，終吉。

The dispute is not prolonged. There is some criticism, but the end is favorable.

The line limits the dispute before it becomes a prolonged struggle; even criticism need not decide its end. Changing Line 1 from yielding to firm turns lower water to lake and produces Hexagram 10.

不克訟，歸而逋其邑。人三百戶，无眚。

Unable to prevail in dispute, one returns and withdraws. The town has three hundred households. No calamity.

The second line is firm and central but faces three firm lines above; the text sends it back to a small settlement. When it yields, the lower trigram becomes earth and the figure is Hexagram 12.

食舊德，貞厲，終吉。或從王事，无成。

Living on inherited virtue; constancy amid danger. Favorable in the end. If serving the king, one claims no achievement.

Inherited standing and work without claimed completion occupy the yielding third place; a firm line there changes lower water to wind, forming Hexagram 44.

不克訟。復即命，渝，安貞吉。

Unable to prevail in dispute, one returns to the mandate, changes course, and rests in constancy. Favorable.

Line 4 is the first firm place of the outer heaven trigram; here the claimant returns to the mandate and changes course. If the line yields, heaven becomes wind and Hexagram 59 results.

訟元吉。

Dispute brought to judgment. Greatly favorable.

Judgment is assigned to the firm and centered fifth line. Changing it to yielding turns the upper trigram from heaven to fire, producing Hexagram 64.

或錫之鞶帶，終朝三褫之。

A leather belt may be bestowed, then stripped away three times before the morning is over.

An honor won through conflict is stripped away within the same morning; victory has not made the reward secure. Changing Line 6 to yielding turns upper heaven to lake and produces Hexagram 47.