As arrows in, the hand of a strong man so are the children of youth.
Nothing seems more natural than for men to be produced of men.
The meaning then is, that, children are not the fruit of chance, but that God, as it seems good to him, distributes to every man his share of them. The stronger a man is he seems so much the better fitted for procreation. Solomon declares on the contrary, that those become fathers to whom God vouchsafes that honor. As the majority of children are not always a source of joy to their parents, a second favor of God is added, which is his forming the minds of children, and adorning them with an excellent disposition, and all kinds of virtues. And assuredly it would be a far happier lot for many to be without children, or barren, than to have a numerous offspring, proving to them only the cause of tears and groans.