Legge gives the fifth line as the fifth nine, undivided, showing its subject possessed of sincerity and drawing others to unite with him, and being rich in resources he employs his neighbours in the same cause with himself. The image commentary is not separately extensive here, resting on the line text's own picture of a leader who does not act alone.
Nine in the fifth place is both central and correctly seated, an undivided line in an odd, honored position, and it rules the upper trigram Xun exactly as the fourth line supports it from below. Where the fourth line's sincerity averted danger through simple trust, the fifth line's sincerity actively draws others in, and its wealth of resources is explicitly not hoarded but shared with the neighboring lines.
This is the ruling position of the hexagram's upper trigram, the place from which the whole gentle restraint that Small Taming describes is ultimately directed, and Legge's line text frames its success as a matter of enlisting cooperation rather than commanding compliance.
Commentary tradition reads the fifth line's employment of neighbours as the clearest statement in the hexagram of restraint exercised through consent rather than command, the small force succeeding precisely because it never has to compel the strength arrayed around it.