Nine in the third place addresses reputation and does it without softening. A querent drawing it is being told that inconsistency of conduct has been noticed, that others are treating it as a disgrace, and that firmness applied now does not undo it, since however firm he may be there will still be ground for regret. Regret is the mildest of the classic's bad outcomes and it is also a lasting one, which suits this hexagram exactly.
The useful part of the reading is the commentary's observation that no one will accept him. That is not a moral verdict handed down from above. It is a description of what happens when people cannot predict somebody, and it names the practical currency the whole figure trades in. Duration is what makes a person usable to others, and a character that varies is expensive to deal with however good any single instance of it was.
When the line changes, the lower trigram Xun becomes Kan and the figure becomes Deliverance, King Wen 40, in which a tension breaks, the thunderstorm clears and what was bound is released. Read against a line about standing in the eyes of others, that destination is unexpectedly kind. The way out of an inconsistent record is a genuine release and a fresh start rather than a tighter grip on the old one, and the classic advises returning to ordinary conditions quickly once it arrives.