The house turned cold long before anyone said a word out loud. Jakob heard the words of the sons of Laban — not spoken to him, but about him (Genesis 31:1). Targum Pseudo-Jonathan records the complaint with stinging precision: Jakob hath taken all that was our father's; and from that which was our father's he hath made himself all the glory of these riches.
Notice what they left out. They left out the fourteen years of service for two wives. They left out the six more years for the flock. They left out the ten times their father had shifted the terms of payment. In the brothers' telling, Jakob appeared one day and swallowed their patrimony.
That is how resentment always speaks. It erases the ledger of what was owed and records only what is visible at the moment envy looks up.
The Maggid teaches: when the children of the house whose fortune you built begin to call you a thief, do not stay to argue. Pack. Jakob did not wait for Laban's sons to move from words to hands. He had heard enough.