«اِللِّي يَاكُل الضَّرْبْ مُوشْ زَيِّ اللِّي يْعِدُّهْ»

The person who suffers the blows feels their effect directly, unlike the person who only counts them. The proverb contrasts lived injury with an external reckoning of what has happened.

Using imagery of physical beating and injury, it points to the difference between undergoing harm and measuring its instances from outside. Counting may record the number of blows, but it cannot convey what being struck is like.

Use it to contrast the experience of someone being harmed with that of a person who counts or measures the harm without receiving it. Its image is specifically one of physical blows and injury, not an endorsement of violence.