Translations
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
See! Sons are a heritage from YHWH, the fruit of the womb His reward.
Look! Children are a gift from Yahweh; the fruit of the womb is His reward, granted by His hand.
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
Footnotes
Nachalah, rendered "heritage" in F.O.G., is Israel's quintessential covenantal term for divinely apportioned land-inheritance—not a possession earned but a sacred trust bestowed by Yahweh and passed through generations. Applying it to banim (sons/children) is a radical theological claim: children are not produced, they are apportioned—as surely as the tribal allotments of Canaan were. Sakar, "reward/wages," reinforces this: it is the fruit not of reproductive achievement but of God's generosity. The shift from "futile labor" in verses 1–2 to this verse is deliberate—the only labor that truly yields is the fruit Yahweh Himself gives. F.O.G. preserves "heritage" to honor the full covenantal freight; F.O.G.M. chooses "gift" so the grace-character of the giving lands immediately.

