Wu Wang / Innocence (The Unexpected)

above:Ch'ien The Creative, Heaven
below:Ch^ en The Arousing, Thunder

The third [six], divided, shows calamity happening to one who is free from insincerity; as in the case of an ox that has been tied up. A passerby finds it (and carries it off) while the people in the neighborhood have the calamity (of being accused and apprehended).

But calamity may also sometimes befall the best, and where there is freedom from insincerity; and line 3 being weak, and in the place of an even line, lays its subject open to this misfortune. 'The people of the neighborhood' are of course entirely innocent.