The closing line of Modesty repeats the second line's phrase and gives it a sharply different application. Legge's translation again speaks of humility that has made itself recognised, then says the subject may with advantage put his hosts in motion, but that he will only punish his own towns and state. The limitation is the whole meaning. Force at the top of this hexagram is permitted, and it is permitted only inward, against disorder in what the person already holds.
A yielding stroke correctly occupies this even position at the top of the upper trigram Kun, past the seat of rule and outside its authority. Lines in the sixth place are read as having exhausted the situation, and the hexagram uses that exhaustion honestly. Someone here has the standing that long modesty confers but no office through which to exercise it abroad, so the only field left for action is the one field genuinely their own.
Read as the hexagram's last word, the line refuses the conclusion that accumulated humility eventually converts into licence. What the fifth line could turn outward against genuine wrong, the sixth may turn only on itself. That is not a diminishment of the virtue but its final test, since a person who will discipline their own household on the same standard they would have applied elsewhere has shown that the standard was never about advantage at all.