Luke 7:32
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.
Proverbs 17:16
Of what good is the price to buy wisdom in the hand of the fool, seeing he has no heart to understand?
Isaiah 28:9-13
Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? Those that are weaned from the milk and drawn from the breasts.
Isaiah 29:11-12
And every vision is unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which if it were delivered to one that knows how to read, saying, Read this, I pray thee: he shall say, I cannot; for it is sealed:
Jeremiah 5:3-5
O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? Thou hast stricken them, but they did not feel it; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive chastisement; they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Zechariah 8:5
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls who shall play in them.
Matthew 11:16-19
But unto whom shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets and shouting unto their fellows