Rely on one's own idea and not on the orders of nature, then every effort will be futile. To enter a pool looking for trees to fell or to seek fish on mountains, one is bound to come back empty handed.
All phenomena have their causes.
All this is so, too, with regard to the endurance or fall of states, and to the goodness or badness of individuals. For everything there must be a reason. Therefore the sage does not inquire about endurance or decay, nor about goodness or badness, but about the reasons for them . To know that one does not know - that is high wisdom. The fault of those who make mistakes is that they think they know when they do not know.