The real issue here is in HHH-8382 Open because Envers uses HBM to supply mappings to ORM. When Envers sees a @Lob annotated field, it provides ORM with the appropriate type in the HBM mapping; however, at no point is the HBM binding code resolving the type and determining that the field is a lob and therefore never sets the flags so that lob property ordering is used.

Ideally, fixing HHH-8382 Open should resolve this from an Envers integration perpsective; however, I'll leave this open should any changes in HHH-8382 Open require changes from the Envers perspective before closing.