| 《·》: | 文王舉閎夭泰顛於罝罔之中，授之政，西土服。 |
| King Wen brought forward Hung Yao and Tai Tian from their rabbit nets and entrusted them with the government and the Western land showed respect. |
| 《·》: | 曰：「文王既沒，文不在茲乎？」 |
| He said, "After the death of King Wen, was not the cause of truth lodged here in me?" |
| 《·》: | 文王以民力為臺為沼。 |
| King Wen used the strength of the people to make his tower and his pond. |
| 《·》: | 對曰：「堯授舜，舜授禹，禹用力而湯用兵，文王順紂而不敢逆，武王逆紂而不肯順，故曰不同。」 |
| 'Yao,' was the reply, 'gave the kingdom to Shun, and Shun gave it to Yu. Yu had recourse to his strength, and Tang to the force of arms. King Wen was obedient to Zhou (-xin), and did not dare to rebel; king Wu rebelled against Zhou, and would not submit to him. And I say that their methods were not the same.' |
| 《·》: | 昔者文王舍伯邑考而立武王，微子舍其孫腯而立衍也。 |
| Anciently, king Wen passed over his eldest son Yi-kao, and appointed king Wu; and the count of Wei passed over his grandson Tu, and made Yan, his (own) younger brother, his successor. |
| 《·》: | 文王在上、於昭于天。 |
| King Wen is on high; Oh! bright is he in heaven. |
| 《·》: | 昔者，周公郊祀後稷以配天，宗祀文王於明堂，以配上帝。 |
| Formerly the duke of Zhou at the border altar sacrificed to Hou Ji as the correlate of Heaven, and in the Brilliant Hall he honored king Wen and sacrificed to him as the correlate of God. |
| 《·》: | 我文考文王克成厥勳，誕膺天命，以撫方夏。 |
| And my deceased father, king Wen, completed his merit, and grandly received the appointment of Heaven, to soothe the regions of our great land. |
| 《·》: | 內文明而外柔順，以蒙大難，文王以之。 |
| The inner (trigram) denotes being accomplished and bright; the outer, being pliant and submissive. The case of king Wen was that of one who with these qualities was yet involved in great difficulties. |
| 《·》: | 昔湯封於贊茅，文王封於岐周，方百里。 |
| In days of old, Tang was invested with Zan-mao, Wen-wang was invested with Qi-Zhou, a district of a hundred square li. |
| 《·》: | 以智說愚必不聽，文王說紂是也。 |
| 《·》: | 孔子學鼓琴于師襄，而諭文王之志，見微以知明矣。 |
| 《·》: | 西伯曰文王，遵后稷、公劉之業，則古公、公季之法，篤仁，敬老，慈少。 |
| 《·》: | 文王長，周公短。 |
| 《》: | 楚文王伐申，過鄧，鄧祁侯曰，吾甥也，止而享之，騅甥，聃甥，養甥，請殺楚子，鄧侯弗許，三甥曰，亡鄧國者，必此人也，若不早圖，後君噬齊，其及圖之乎，圖之，此為時矣，鄧侯曰，人將不食吾餘，對曰，若不從三臣，抑社稷實不血食，而君焉取餘，弗從，還年，楚子伐鄧，十六年，楚復伐鄧，滅之。 |
| 《·》: | 虞人與芮人質其成於文王，入文王之境，則見其人民之讓為士大夫。 |
