47. Overwhelmed · 困 九四
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In practice
Helping others in times of hardship matters, but that help has to be quick to do its job.
The poetry
Comes slowly, slowly, hard pressed in a metal carriage. Distress, but there is an end.
九四：來徐徐，困于金車，吝，有終。
象曰：來徐徐，志在下也。雖不當位，有與也。
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