If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
Personification. The complaints of the unjustly ousted proprietors are transferred to the lands themselves (Job 31:20; Genesis 4:10; Habakkuk 2:11). If I have unjustly acquired lands (Job 24:2; Isaiah 5:8).
Furrows - the specification of these makes it likely, he implies in this, 'If I paid not the labourer for tillage;' as next verse, 'If I paid him not for gathering in the fruits.' Thus, of the four clauses in Job 31:38-39, the first refers to the same subject as the fourth, and the second is connected with the third by introverted parallelism. James 5:4, who plainly alludes to this passage: cf. "Lord of Sabaoth" with Job 31:26 here.