Hexagram 16: Delight
Statement: What delight! Gain by naming allies. Move armies.
Top trigram: Thunder
Bottom trigram: Earth
Hexagram Number: 16
Hexagram Name: Delight
Line 1 comment: Crowing delight. Misfortune.
Line 2 comment: Upright like a rock in character. In less than a day one shows that purity. Fortune.
Line 3 comment: Wide-eyed delight is regrettable. If you are late you will have regrets.
Line 4 comment: Through delight, the great attains. Do not doubt it! Friends gather like hair in a clasp.
Line 5 comment: Firm illness persists, but there is no death.
Line 6 comment: Dark delight succeeds. Have a change of mind and there will be no fault.
The image Thunder explodes, shaking the earth: delight. The early kings made music, glorifying virtue as the highest offering to God, and so they were worthy of their ancestors.