Hexagram 43 · 夬 guài

Decisive Break · line 4

九四:臀无膚,其行次且。牽羊悔亡,聞言不信。

The fourth line, undivided, shows one from whose buttocks the skin has been stripped, and who walks slowly and with difficulty. (If he could act) like a sheep led (after its companions), occasion for repentance would disappear. But though he hear these words, he will not believe them.

James Legge, 1882

Hexagram 43 Decisive Break · Judgement

夬:揚于王庭,孚號有厲。告自邑,不利即戎,利有攸往。

Kwâi requires (in him who would fulfil its meaning) the exhibition (of the culprit's guilt) in the royal court, and a sincere and earnest appeal (for sympathy and support), with a consciousness of the peril (involved in cutting off the criminal). He should (also) make announcement in his own city, and show that it will not be well to have recourse at once to arms. (In this way) there will be advantage in whatever he shall go forward to.

James Legge, 1882