Surprisingly enough, it's a chiasm.
A: an unjust society (17:26)
B: how to prevent folly (17:27-28)
B': how to cultivate folly (18:1-2)
A': a just society (18:3)
Interestingly, each verse in this text is synthetic (i.e., the second line repeats or emphasizes the point made in the first line), but the chiastic pairs are antithetic (i.e., one element contrasts with the other).
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