Ok, a quick summary of Job for you anNIALLator.
First off, Job is a curious mix of Story and Philosophical thinking. It begins with a bit of story, then moves into a discussion, then returns to a story at the end. So then, the story.
Job is a rich guy with a big family, but was also a very godly sort. More godly than most in fact.
One day, all the angels, including Satan come before God and God asks what he's been up to. Satan's reply is a vague, 'Y'know.. stuff.' They then get talking about Job, who God says is pretty cool. But Satan disagrees, saying that he's only so godly because he's having an easy time of it, and if pushed would probably curse God to his face. God disagrees, but says that Satan can go and test Job, but not hurt him.
Satan goes off to do his thing, and Jobs children are killed in various nasty ways and all Jobs wealth (which in those days was livestock)get rather strangely burnt to death by falling fire and stolen by raiding parties.
Job is notably upset and grieves his loss, but concedes that God both gives and takes away as he pleases.
Satan doesn't think this is enough however, so when the angels assemble before God again, God says something along the lines of, 'Well look at that, Job is still faithful to me, even after all that stuff you did.' Satan's reply is that the punishment didn't go far enough, and that this time God should let him attack Job himself, because certainly a nasty illness is enough to get him to curse God to his face. God thinks otherwise and allows Satan to attack Job, but does not allow Satan to kill him. Satan afflicts Job with horrifically painful boils, and Job gets so upset he sits in a pile of ash and sits there scraping the pus from his sores with a piece of old pottery. His wife tells him he's being stupid for sticking to his guns about God, to which he replies that they should take the rough with the smooth.
At this point, the book switches from story to discussion, where Jobs' three friends try to figure out why this happened. They each take a turn to try and justify all this suffering, and their take on it is that Job must have done something wrong, so all this suffering he had brought on his head. Job however, defends his innocence again and again to his friends, as well as directing the question 'why have you done this?' to God.
Eventually, God gives Job his answer, but it's not the answer he expected. In short, God's answer is 'I do it because I can, and who are you to argue with me?'
We then nip back into story mode, where we are told that Job recovered from his boils, created a new family and eventually became twice as rich as he had been before the disaster.
Of course, this being a summary I can't do it justice, so if you want the whole lot here's a link.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job;&version=31;
Essentially, the book of Job asks an age old question that many a human has asked at some point- Why do bad things happen to good people? The book does not exactly give us a nice reply, quite the opposite in fact. So there you have it. Job, as short as I could get it. Hope that helps.
