Hexagram 8 · 比 bǐ
Alliance · line 1
初六：有孚比之，无咎。有孚盈缶，終來有它，吉。
The first line, divided, shows its subject seeking by his sincerity to win the attachment of his object. There will be no error. Let (the breast) be full of sincerity as an earthenware vessel is of its contents, and it will in the end bring other advantages.
James Legge, 1882
Hexagram 8 Alliance · Judgement
比：吉。原筮，元永貞，无咎。不寧方來，後夫凶。
Pi indicates that (under the conditions which it supposes) there is good fortune. But let (the principal party intended in it) re-examine himself, (as if) by divination, whether his virtue be great, unintermitting, and firm. If it be so, there will be no error. Those who have not rest will then come to him; and with those who are (too) late in coming it will be ill.
James Legge, 1882