“this life of yours is determined … by God,” Israel’s wisdom tradition taught that “self-glorification cannot be combined with trust in Yahweh.… Wisdom itself can never become the object of trust, never become that upon which a man leans his life” (von Rad 1972: 106, 102–3). If there are no “buts” about the God-givenness of David’s courage, there is an “and.” It is a God-given “and.” David’s appearance deceives the Philistine because Goliath despises him: the Jew is a representative of a backward