"I do not know what they were, but they lasted his lifetime, and all my life you have treated me with aversion.

I am not a pestilence.

I have never wronged you.

I have lived your peaceful neighbour under great provocation, for your treatment would have done me harm if my place were less secure.

I think I have cause for complaint." "I have never acted in haste concerning thee, or those who went before thee.