The world would have us believe that true might is based in power alone. That is to say that someone is truly strong when the sum of their parts is able to outmaneuver or outmode the sum of someone else’s. Here we find the familiar emphasis of Solomon on the idea of transcendence, as it relates to power or might. A wise person is not the sum of their parts. They in fact are more. They are the sum of a cumulative experience as well as a transcendent knowledge. Because they listen to their philosophical ancestors and their creator, their existence is capable of fulfilling mankind’s shallow definition of might, as well as lifting a wise man’s status beyond it. In this way, wisdom is “too lofty for fools.” It is in this way the “wise are mightier than the strong.” A wise man is not confined to himself. The parts that make up his immediate being or circumstance do not lock him into that moment of time or location. Through wisdom, his reach, grasp & command increase exponentially as with knowledge and opportunity. These things help him to stand among kings as advisors, tho he himself is neither a king or an advisor to the king. In this vain, it was the wisdom of a boy that killed Goliath. Knowing God wouldn’t be mocked, and using that knowledge with a child’s weapon was enough to put David on the path from shepherd to king.