Chapter 73 Dyer
Bold action against others leads to death.
Bold action in harmony with the Dao leads to life.
Both of these things sometimes benefit and sometimes injure.
It is Heaven's way to conquer without striving.
It does not speak yet it is answered.
It does not ask yet it is supplied with all that it needs.
It does not hurry yet it completes everything on time.
The net of Heaven catches all.
Its mesh is coarse but nothing slips through.
Chapter 73 Henricks
1. If you're brave in being daring, you'll be killed;
2. If you're brave in not being daring, you'll live.
3. With these two things, in one case there's profit, in the other there's harm.
4. The things Heaven hates—who knows why?
5. The Way of Heaven is not to fight yet to be good at winning—
6. Not to speak yet skillfully respond—
7. No one summons it, yet it comes on its own—
8. To be at ease yet carefully plan.
9. Heaven's net is large and vast;
10. Its mesh may be coarse yet nothing slips through.
Chapter 73 Lau
He who is fearless in being bold will meet with his death;
He who is fearless in being timid will stay alive.
Of the two, one leads to good, the other to harm.
Heaven hates what it hates,
Who knows the reason why?
Therefore even the sage treats some things as difficult.
The way of heaven
Excels in overcoming though it does not contend,
In responding though it does not speak,
In attracting though it does not summon,
In laying plans though it appears slack.
The net of heaven is cast wide.
Though the mesh is not fine, yet nothing ever slips through.
Chapter 73 Wu
He who is brave in daring will be killed;
He who is brave in not daring will survive.
Of these two kinds of bravery, one is beneficial, while the other proves harmful.
Some things are detested by Heaven,
But who knows the reason?
Even the Sage is baffled by such a question.
It is Heaven's Way to conquer without striving,
To get responses without speaking,
To induce the people to come without summoning,
To act according to plans without haste.
Vast is Heaven's net;
Sparse-meshed it is, and yet
Nothing can slip through it.