Lo, children [are] an heritage of the Lord,.... As all success, safety, and the blessings of life, depend on the providence of God; so this very great blessing is a gift of his; having children, and those good ones, as the Targum interprets it; for of such only can it be understood: so, in a spiritual sense, the children of Christ, the antitypical Solomon, are the gifts of his heavenly Father to him; his portion and inheritance, and a goodly heritage he esteems them;[and] the fruit of the womb [is his] reward; "fruit" is the same with "children" in the preceding clause; see Lu 1:42; a reward he gives to good men, not of debt, but of grace; the Targum,"a reward of good works:''so regenerate persons are a reward to Christ, of his sufferings and death, Isa 53:10.
"Nascitur ad fructum mulier", Claudian. in Eutrop. l. 1. v.