Bonaventure

"If anyone should beget" etc. Here is noted the detestation of miserliness by reason of the aforementioned transfer, and he reproves miserliness itself, however much successive prosperity he may have. Therefore he adds: "If anyone should beget a hundred children," this is said hyperbolically, that is, many children, because the wicked frequently beget wicked children, in whom there is no joy, even if they are many: Sirach 16: "Do not rejoice in ungodly children; if they are multiplied, do not delight in them." To abound in children …

Commentary on Ecclesiastes, Chapter 6 ↗