I mean that many children to be born is but an inadequate return for many children dying.

If a father loses a well-beloved son, it is small recompense of that aching void that he gets another.

For this reason of the affections, and because I suppose that thinkers have sympathised with me in the difficulty, I wish to say a word about Job's children lost and found.

It will clear away what is to some minds a moral and affectionate objection.

Now this is the state of the case.
"The patriarch is introduced to us as possessing so many camels and oxen, and so forth, and ten children.