一孔录The video for this chapter is still in production. For now this page gives the original text, the facsimile page, a working translation and the commentary; the full reading follows when the video is out.
子曰：不患人之不己知，患其不能也。The Master said: Do not worry that others do not know you; worry that you lack ability.
What this chapter says
一孔按：不担心别人不了解我，担心自己没本事。常有人问：“不患人之不己知，患其不能也”，别人不了解自己时该担心什么？上面是一孔录的回答。
Yikonglu's reading of this chapter is in Chinese for now; the English version comes with the video.
白Plain Chinese
孔子说，不必忧虑别人不了解自己，应忧虑自己没有本领。
Draft plain-Chinese rendering following Zhu Xi; it will be checked when the chapter is covered.
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Connections
- Same line elsewhere
- Analects 1.16 不患人之不己知，患不知人也。
Relationship map of the whole book · The Analects, AI-reconstructed edition (PDF)
Close reading and checking
For readers who want to go deeper or check our work: key words in the commentary, what other commentators say, textual variants, the commentaries in their own words with facsimile pages, pronunciation and corrections. Tap a heading to open it.
常The common reading
“不患人之不己知，患其不能也”，别人不了解自己时该担心什么？
见Cross-references
- 子曰：不患人之不 Commentary：凡章指同而文不异者，一言而重出也。（朱熹《论语集注》卷七·宪问第32章（底本第 199 页））
- 子曰：不患人之不 Commentary：文小异者，屡言而各出也。（朱熹《论语集注》卷七·宪问第32章（底本第 199 页））
- 子曰：不患人之不 Elsewhere in the Analects：子曰：不患人之不己知，患不知人也。（《论语》集注分章1.16（底本第 23 页））
家Other commentaries
Our base text is Zhu Xi's Collected Commentaries (above). Here are other commentaries side by side: for old commentaries, the first line of the sub-commentary with a link to the woodblock scan; for modern editions, one short quoted translation for comparison. The “compared with Zhu Xi” notes are written by Yikonglu, not quoted.
皇侃《论语义疏》Liang dynasty · 1750 Japanese woodblock edition · juan 七
“言不患人之不知我之有才能也，正患無才能耳。”……
Compared with Zhu Xi
| Commentary | Point | Relation | Confidence | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 钱穆《论语新解》 | same | fairly sure | 同认不患人不知患己不能为屡言常道，本章文异而旨同，非机械误抄；钱承朱辨全同为重出、小异为各次所闻。 |
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