diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1d8248bc..f4b4d3e4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ A preview of the next release can be installed from
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+- [#1818](https://github.com/babashka/babashka/issues/1818): wrong argument order in `clojure.java.io/resource` implementation
 - Add `java.text.BreakIterator`
 - Bump `fs` to `0.5.25`
 - Bump `jsoup` to `1.20.1`
diff --git a/src/babashka/impl/classpath.clj b/src/babashka/impl/classpath.clj
index 6da8b59f..55597802 100644
--- a/src/babashka/impl/classpath.clj
+++ b/src/babashka/impl/classpath.clj
@@ -84,8 +84,8 @@
       cp)))
 
 (defn resource
-  (^URL [path] (resource @the-url-loader path))
-  (^URL [loader path]
+  (^URL [path] (resource path @the-url-loader))
+  (^URL [path loader]
    (if (str/starts-with? path "/") nil ;; non-relative paths always return nil
        (getResource loader [path] true))))
 
diff --git a/src/babashka/main.clj b/src/babashka/main.clj
index 773cc7fb..8c867774 100644
--- a/src/babashka/main.clj
+++ b/src/babashka/main.clj
@@ -1190,7 +1190,7 @@ Use bb run --help to show this help output.
                                 (println "[babashka] WARNING: config file does not exist:" config))
                               nil))
                  jar (let [jar (resolve-symbolic-link jar)]
-                       (some-> [jar] cp/new-loader (cp/resource "META-INF/bb.edn") .toString))
+                       (some->> [jar] cp/new-loader (cp/resource "META-INF/bb.edn") .toString))
                  :else (if (and file (fs/exists? file))
                          ;; file relative to bb.edn
                          (let [file (abs-path file) ;; follow symlink