Line 4 九四 yang, undivided, of hexagram 21 噬嗑 Shì Kè
The line, with Legge
Line statement 爻辭
噬乾胏，得金矢，利艱貞，吉。
The fourth line, undivided, shows one gnawing the flesh dried on the bone, and getting the pledges of money and arrows. It will be advantageous to him to realise the difficulty of his task and be firm,—in which case there will be good fortune. (Legge, 1882)
The Image 小象
利艱貞吉，未光也。
Where this line leads
Sources
- Chinese text: 周易, 維基文庫, page (revision 10645753); the text is public domain, the site's edits CC BY-SA 4.0.
- English: James Legge, The Yî King, Sacred Books of the East vol. XVI, Oxford 1882 (public domain).
- Pinyin: Unihan (Unicode License v3) with this site's readings for the classical cases.