Hexagram 8 · 比 bǐ

Alliance · line 5

九五:顯比,王用三驅,失前禽,邑人不誡,吉。

The fifth line, undivided, affords the most illustrious instance of seeking union and attachment. (We seem to see in it) the king urging his pursuit of the game (only) in three directions, and allowing the escape of all the animals before him, while the people of his towns do not warn one another (to prevent it). There will be good fortune.

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