Luke 7:32
They are like children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped to you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
Proverbs 17:16
Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
Isaiah 28:9-13
Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
Isaiah 29:11-12
And the vision of all is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
Jeremiah 5:3-5
O LORD, are not thy eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: 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 playing in its streets.
Matthew 11:16-19
But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like to children sitting in the markets, and calling to their fellows,