Luke 7:32
They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call one to another, saying, 'We piped to you, and you didn't dance. We mourned, and you didn't weep.'
Proverbs 17:16
Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?
Isaiah 28:9-13
Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
Isaiah 29:11-12
All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, "Read this, please;" and he says, "I can't, for it is sealed:"
Jeremiah 5:3-5
O Yahweh, don't your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have 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
The streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing in its streets."
Matthew 11:16-19
"But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions