1)

Why does it repeat hitting him with a staff?

1.

R. Yonah: Here it mentions it with saving his soul from She'ol. The pain is light opposite the gain and salvation!

2.

Malbim: Here we infer that if you do not hit him, his Nefesh will die.

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