让王

The title means 'to decline a throne'. The chapter, one of the later miscellaneous chapters, gathers men who refused power because it would harm their lives: Yao offers the empire to 许由, and Shun offers it to a recluse who answers that he works when the sun rises, rests when it sets and is content, the line behind 日出而作.

It also pictures the poverty of 曾子, who went ten years without new clothes: when he straightened his cap the strap snapped, and when he pulled his lapels together his elbows showed, hence 捉襟见肘 'stretched too thin'.