Bible crossword puzzle: Job, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes

Based on material in chapter 11 of Discovering the Bibleby Alex Varughese

Challenge: Can you solve this puzzle even if you do not have the book by Varughese?

ACROSS

2 A Bible book that has "meaningless" or "vanity" for a key word. This book looks for the meaning of life and concludes that a God-fearing life is better than a life filled with wicked schemes
3 A book with the story of a wealthy man who lost all he had in a series of disasters. It deals with the question: Why do the righteous suffer?

DOWN

1 A book of wise sayings that deal with discovering the way to the good life and how to live life to your full potential. It has a paragraph extolling the virtuous woman

"We'll know how to live well and right, to understand what life means and where it's going; A manual for living, for learning what's right and just and fair; To teach the inexperienced the ropes and give our young people a grasp on reality." -- Proverbs 1:2-4 , The Message

This crossword puzzle was created for use in the course Introduction to Biblical Literature. The words and clues come from the textbook Discovering the Bible: Story and Faith of the Biblical Communities edited by Alex Varughese and published by Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, now called The Foundry.

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