Hexagram 40 · 解 xiè

Untangling · line 4

九四:解而拇,朋至斯孚。

(To the subject of) the fourth line, undivided (it is said), 'Remove your toes. Friends will (then) come, between you and whom there will be mutual confidence.'

James Legge, 1882

Hexagram 40 Untangling · Judgement

解:利西南。无所往,其來復吉;有攸往,夙吉。

In (the state indicated by) Kieh advantage will be found in the south-west. If no (further) operations be called for, there will be good fortune in coming back (to the old conditions). If some operations be called for, there will be good fortune in the early conducting of them.

James Legge, 1882