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子曰：鄙夫可與事君也與哉？其未得之也，患得之；既得之，患失之。苟患失之，無所不至矣。The Master said: Can one serve a ruler alongside a base man? Before he gets it, he worries about getting it; once he has it, he worries about losing it. If he worries about losing it, there is nothing he will not do.
白Plain Chinese
孔子说，鄙陋的人怎能与他一同事君，职位未得到时担心得不到，得到后又担心失掉。既然怕失去，就什么事都干得出来。
Draft plain-Chinese rendering following Zhu Xi; it will be checked when the chapter is covered.
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- Read alongside (Yikonglu)Daodejing 13: “Favor and disgrace alike are alarming” (宠辱若惊): before getting something you fear not getting it, and once you have it you fear losing it. This is just Confucius's “base fellow” (鄙夫).
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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 九
“言凡鄙之人不可與事君。”……
Compared with Zhu Xi
| Commentary | Point | Relation | Confidence | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 杨伯峻《论语译注》 | 患得 | word sense | settled | 杨校为患不得之，朱保正文而注患不能得；忧得失而无不为之旨同，文字处理不同。 |
| 钱穆《论语新解》 | same | fairly sure | 同以患得为患不得、得后患失乃无所不为的病根，故不能与鄙夫共事君；不是对正常得失关切一概斥恶。 |
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