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[Funny Guy]

Does this mean that sometimes divorce is not only ok, but neccessary?

[jimwalton]

No, the text is not about marriage or divorce at all, but instead about wisdom and folly. Here the "woman" is the personification of secular philosophy, of godlessness, and of idolatry. Look also at Prov. 5; 7.4; 9; also James 3.15. Solomon had plenty of these kinds of women as wives. (Even if Solomon didn't write Ecclesiastes, the metaphor still stands.) He's comparing attractive but ultimately empty schemes with true wisdom.