Were told not to curse but bless yet God curses the whole human race?

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When something is cursed in the Old Testament you are not allowed to think of it as your own property nor use it at your own discretion.
Everything was cursed in Jericho when Joshua and the Israelites overtook it they were not allowed to have anything from it as their own possession like neighboring armies do when they plunder during war.
The word cursed in that instance is often translated as devoted to the deity.
In the New Testament the word cursed is anathema meaning offered up. The phrase “let him be anathema” means “stay away from him.”

God cursed the ground for Adam in Genesis by saying, "You can’t have anything from the ground without asking for it. You ask for it by farming the ground and asking by your hard labor of tilling the ground, “May I have something to eat?” "
Cursed means, “You may not touch it does not belong to you”.

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God is God and can do things we can’t or aren’t allowed to do.

It’s His creation, not ours. If He decided to take my life right now, it’s His choice and there is nothing wrong with that. If I decide to take my life, it is not my right and a sin. Just as an example.
 
Thank you, but I wanted the OP’s definition to see what his issue might be.
 
The punishment of Adam’s sin was actually for man’s good and helped him and all of us overcome the consequences of his sin:

St. Irenaeus:
  1. Wherefore also He drove him out of Paradise, and removed him far from the tree of life, not because He envied him the tree of life, as some venture to assert, but because He pitied him, [and did not desire] that he should continue a sinner for ever, nor that the sin which surrounded him should be immortal, and evil interminable and irremediable. But He set a bound to his [state of] sin, by interposing death, and thus causing sin to cease, Romans 6:7 putting an end to it by the dissolution of the flesh, which should take place in the earth, so that man, ceasing at length to live to sin, and dying to it, might begin to live to God.
  2. For this end did He put enmity between the serpent and the woman and her seed, they keeping it up mutually: He, the sole of whose foot should be bitten, having power also to tread upon the enemy’s head; but the other biting, killing, and impeding the steps of man, until the seed did come appointed to tread down his head — which was born of Mary, of whom the prophet speaks: You shall tread upon the asp and the basilisk; you shall trample down the lion and the dragon; — indicating that sin, which was set up and spread out against man, and which rendered him subject to death, should be deprived of its power, along with death, which rules [over men]; and that the lion, that is, antichrist, rampant against mankind in the latter days, should be trampled down by Him; and that He should bind the dragon, that old serpent Revelation 20:2 and subject him to the power of man, who had been conquered Luke 10:19 so that all his might should be trodden down. Now Adam had been conquered, all life having been taken away from him: wherefore, when the foe was conquered in his turn, Adam received new life; and the last enemy, death, is destroyed, 1 Corinthians 15:26 which at the first had taken possession of man. Therefore, when man has been liberated, what is written shall come to pass, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your sting? 1 Corinthians 15:54-55 This could not be said with justice, if that man, over whom death did first obtain dominion, were not set free. For his salvation is death’s destruction. When therefore the Lord vivifies man, that is, Adam, death is at the same time destroyed.
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