Relief after hardship

If a person survives, their body will recover its strength.

The saying offers reassurance during illness or severe wasting: if a person survives, bodily strength and fullness may return after recovery.

Even a blazing disaster can be ashes by morning; God is guiding what happens.

The saying consoles someone facing a crisis that appears overwhelming. Trouble can flare up with the force of a fire, yet its intensity may fade sooner than expected, so despair is not the only possible response.

Duck down before it, and it will go right past you.

The saying advises meeting an unnamed misfortune or hostile moment, with the 'it' left implied, by lowering oneself and letting it sweep past rather than standing upright against it. The image is of someone ducking so that a blow or gust goes overhead, leaving them unharmed once it is gone.

Sooner or later the slave goes free: either death takes him or his master releases him.

The saying holds that a hardship cannot last forever: a bound servant will eventually be released, either through his owner granting freedom or through his own death. Since either outcome ends the bondage, the sufferer is counselled to endure patiently rather than despair.

The saying offers reassurance that troubles, damage, or strained circumstances may improve with time. It encourages patience by directing attention away from the present difficulty toward a hoped-for eventual repair.

Even a period that feels exceptionally long, tiring, or difficult will eventually be over. The saying offers patience by reminding someone that no ordeal continues without end.

Difficult or unchanging circumstances need not continue forever. Even a seemingly endless stretch of hardship may eventually change direction, creating an opening for improvement or relief.

It observes that time can lessen even profound grief. The point is not that loss disappears, but that its sharpest pain may gradually become less overwhelming.