Luke 7:32

They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another, who say, 'We played the flute for you and you did not dance; we sang a lament and you did not weep.'

Proverbs 17:16

Why [is] this? A price in the hand of a fool, [in order] to buy wisdom where there is no {sense}.

Isaiah 28:9-13

[To] whom will he teach knowledge, and [to] whom will he explain [the] message? Those who are weaned from milk, [those] taken from [the] breast?

Isaiah 29:11-12

And the vision of all this has become for you like [the] words of sealed document. When they give it to one who knows the document, saying, "{Read} this now!" He says, "I am not able, for it [is] sealed."

Jeremiah 5:3-5

Yahweh, do not your eyes [look] for honesty? You have struck them, but they felt no pain, you have destroyed them, they refused to take discipline. They have hardened their faces more than rock, they have refused to turn back.

Zechariah 8:5

And the public squares of the city will be filled [with] boys and girls playing in its public squares.'

Matthew 11:16-19

"But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another,

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Summary

They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.

Children

Bible References

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Proverbs 17:16
Why [is] this? A price in the hand of a fool, [in order] to buy wisdom where there is no {sense}.
Isaiah 28:9
[To] whom will he teach knowledge, and [to] whom will he explain [the] message? Those who are weaned from milk, [those] taken from [the] breast?
Isaiah 29:11
And the vision of all this has become for you like [the] words of sealed document. When they give it to one who knows the document, saying, "{Read} this now!" He says, "I am not able, for it [is] sealed."
Jeremiah 5:3
Yahweh, do not your eyes [look] for honesty? You have struck them, but they felt no pain, you have destroyed them, they refused to take discipline. They have hardened their faces more than rock, they have refused to turn back.
Matthew 11:16
"But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another,

Children

Zechariah 8:5
And the public squares of the city will be filled [with] boys and girls playing in its public squares.'