The Bible says: knowledge leads to death.
You are incorrect; in Hosea, God says "My people die for
lack of knowledge".
There was the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Adam and Eve eat from it and they died.
That was preety clear to me.
The passage in Hosea is as clear as day; if you believe in the integrity of the Bible, then you accept that God's people die for lack of knowledge.