Saying 22

The wise prevail through great power,
    and those who have knowledge muster their strength.
Surely you need guidance to wage war,
    and victory is won through many advisers.

Proverbs 24:5-6

The thought of wisdom is continued in this verse, this time stating that its possession makes one a strong man, Grammatically the verse is Hebrew parallelism in which the second statement is a restatement of the first. Other passages on the “might” of wisdom: Proverbs 21:22; Ecclesiastes 9:16. Note the relationship between wisdom and strength as Ecclesiastes 9 continues:

There was once a small city with only a few people in it. And a powerful king came against it, surrounded it and built huge siege works against it. Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man. 

Ecclesiastes 9:14-15

The strength referred to in verse 5 was evidently military strength, as this verse shows. The first statement of this verse is found in Proverbs 20:18, and its last statement is found in Proverbs 11:14. Proverbs 15:22 is like the last statement, Kings kept courts oi wise men to counsel them in time of war. David (and later Absalom) had Ahithophel (1 Samuel 16:23), and Ahab had his prophets (1 Kings 22:6).