⁸ How can I curse
    those whom God has not cursed?^(A)
How can I denounce
    those whom the Lord has not denounced?^(B)

¹⁹ God is not human,^(A) that he should lie,^(B)
    not a human being, that he should change his mind.^(C)
Does he speak and then not act?
    Does he promise^(D) and not fulfill?
²⁰ I have received a command to bless;^(E)
    he has blessed,^(F) and I cannot change it.^(G)

²³ There is no divination against^[a] Jacob,
    no evil omens^(A) against^[b] Israel.
It will now be said of Jacob
    and of Israel, ‘See what God has done!’