Lo, children [are] an heritage of the LORD: [and] the fruit of the womb [is his] reward.
Ver. 3. Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord] This Solomon could not but be sensible of. See the title of this psalm; especially, if by children are meant good children, as, Proverbs 18:22, by a wife is meant a good wife. And here the poor man that hath no inheritance otherwise hath one from the Lord; for such are oft full of children; neither may he wish, as one graceless man did, that God would keep such his blessings to himself, for he had too many of them.
Is his reward] That is, his free gift; and God will be their exceeding great reward, if, by their parents' prayer and good education, they prove towardly, as the Lord's heritage, and as arrows in the hand, &c.