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James Legge, 1899 (public domain)
Hang indicates successful progress and no error (in what it denotes). But the advantage will come from being firm and correct; and movement in any direction whatever will be advantageous.
Häng — thunder and wind moving together without pause — is the hexagram of duration: not standing still, but standing so firm that movement never leaves its ground. I promise successful progress and no error to the one who holds to a settled way; be firm and correct, and movement in any direction whatever is advantageous. The lines measure endurance. Long continuance longed for at the gate — evil. A field where no game is found — the office outlived by its holder. Virtue maintained by constraint — fortune in a wife, evil in a husband. Set your character where sun and moon are set, and your constancy will outlast the question you brought.
Line 1
The first line, divided, shows its subject deeply (desirous) of long continuance. Even with firm correctness there will be evil; there will be no advantage in any way.
Line 2
The second line, undivided, shows all occasion for repentance disappearing.
Line 3
The third line, undivided, shows one who does not continuously maintain his virtue. There are those who will impute this to him as a disgrace. However firm he may be, there will be ground for regret.
Line 4
The fourth line, undivided, shows a field where there is no game.
Line 5
The fifth line, divided, shows its subject continuously maintaining the virtue indicated by it. In a wife this will be fortunate; in a husband, evil.
Line 6
The topmost line, divided, shows its subject exciting himself to long continuance. There will be evil.