Classic of Changes
下經 Xià jīng
解 第四十 Hexagram 40 · Xiè
解：利西南，无所往，其來復吉。有攸往，夙吉。
In (the state indicated by) Kieh advantage will be found in the south-west. If no (further) operations be called for, there will be good fortune in coming back (to the old conditions). If some operations be called for, there will be good fortune in the early conducting of them.
初六：无咎。
The first line, divided, shows that its subject will commit no error.
九二：田獲三狐，得黃矢，貞吉。
The second line, undivided, shows its subject catch, in hunting, three foxes, and obtain the yellow (= golden) arrows. With firm correctness there will be good fortune.
六三：負且乘，致寇至，貞吝。
The third line, divided, shows a porter with his burden, (yet) riding in a carriage. He will (only) tempt robbers to attack him. However firm and correct he may (try to) be, there will be cause for regret.
九四：解而拇，朋至斯孚。
(To the subject of) the fourth line, undivided, (it is said), ‘Remove your toes. Friends will (then) come, between you and whom there will be mutual confidence.’
六五：君子維有解，吉；有孚于小人。
The fifth line, divided, shows (its subject), the superior man (= the ruler), executing his function of removing (whatever is injurious to the idea of the hexagram), in which case there will be good fortune, and confidence in him will be shown even by the small men.
上六：公用射隼，于高墉之上，獲之，无不利。
In the sixth line, divided, we see a feudal prince (with his bow) shooting at a falcon on the top of a high wall, and hitting it. (The effect of his action) will be in every way advantageous. ling a complication; and as the name of this hexagram, it denotes to show, as if from the lines of the figure, how this new and better If further active operations be not necessary to complete the subju - ‘ ’