Gregory the Dialogist

If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain. [ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION] For what is it for the 'land to cry,' for 'the furrows to weep,' and to have 'eaten one's own fruits buying them?' To whom is it necessary to buy what is his own? who has heard 'the land crying?' Who has seen 'the furrows weeping?' And whereas the furrows of the land are always of the land, why is it that by a separate declaration it is both said that the land did not cry, and that the furrows thereof did not weep along with it? …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXII ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Then he excludes himself from the vice of extreme desire even in things he has acquired in his own possession. This is shown in two ways. In one way by the fact that man is eager to extract too much profit from his own possessions by excessive cultivation, and he excludes this metaphorically saying, "If my land cries out against me," because it seemed I have not permitted it to rest, and I had planted it too much. So he says, "and its furrows weep with it." He speaks using the metaphor of a man who is excessively anxious.

Commentary on Job ↗