Hexagram 8 · 比 bǐ

Alliance · line 3

六三:比之匪人。

In the third line, divided, we see its subject seeking for union with such as ought not to be associated with.

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