Pro 17:10 | NETfull | STEP | A rebuke makes a greater impression on a discerning person than a hundred blows on a fool.

Proverbs 17:10

10 A rebuke makes a greater impression on ^{▼▼ Heb “goes in deeper” (cf. NASB, NRSV). The verb נָחֵת (nakhet) “to go down; to descend” with the preposition בְּ (bet) means “to descend into; to make an impression on” someone.} a discerning person
than a hundred blows on a fool. ^{▼▼ The form is the Hiphil infinitive of נָכָה (nakhah) with the comparative מִן, min. The word “fool” then would be an objective genitive – more than blows to/on a fool.}